14. 11.
I’m a pretty big fan of Google and have been for some while. I was never one to search with MSN or Live and Yahoo was something I may have tried ages ago, but recently I’ve been giving some thought to letting the folks in Redmond have a chance with my searches by conducting them on Bing.
It’s not that I am unhappy with Google, but rather I want to know that I have a full understanding of what the “other side” has to offer. I’ve used it a handful of times just to kick the tires, but I don’t feel as though a handful of searches will really provide me with a deeper sense of knowing the Bing engine.
I’m not sure what it will feel like to use Bing instead of Google, but I am prepared to give it a shot for a week and see how it works out. As I Bing my way through my week I will come back here to share my findings.
Anyone else spending time with Bing? What are your impressions?
13. 11.
A few years ago groups of people set forth to let the then-president of the United States know exactly what they thought of him by using a technique that came to be known as “Google Bombing”. By using the text “miserable failure” in links leading to the White House biography for George W. Bush, it was possible to make that page rank #1 in search results for the term “miserable failure”.
Google set about to alter their algorithms to anticipate and dampen the effect of Google Bombing, supposedly removing the ability for this to happen again.
Well folks… I’m here to tell you that our new president isn’t fairing much better - this time with the phrase “who is failure”.
Try and see for yourself: http://www.google.com/search?q=who+is+failure
Ed Rooney