Comments on: Microsoft, Tell Sergey About Bing And He’ll Give You A Better Name

By: ranajn

ranajn — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:48:24 +0000

I think that this name is not suited to a MS product and it’s not get popularity by this name..

By: Thinker

Thinker — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:42:47 +0000

I think you have all completely missed the point. Well, the first twenty or so of you – I stopped reading after that. Here is the point:

When Google was launched, there was a desperate need for accurate web search. It fixed that problem and became popular. When Bing was launched, that problem was still fixed. Nobody is pulling out their hair because Google didn’t produce an adequate result – chances are if it’s not in Google results it doesn’t exist, and the exceptions to this are so few and far between that only a bunch of utter morons like the cretins at Microsoft would bother spending any time or money trying to reinvent it.

It’s not a terrible thing though, because this sort of useless idea means that there are plenty of real opportunities left for small firms and programmers to jump on and become the next billionaires of the industry. Not that a billionaire is worth anything anymore…

By: Google Paid Links Debate Over Android Ion Phone Giveaway | Internet Marketing Inc.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:07:28 +0000

[...] There was laughter throughout the room when Sergey responded that he is happy with the name Google which was picked up on several sites including TechCrunch. [...]

By: James

James — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:23:39 +0000

Can’t stand the name!!!!
Can’t stand the “backround for presentation view”
(Not relaxing colors either)
Low class expressional name for a high-tech society, even “star” would have been better than
bing? What follows next….Zing?

By: nick

nick — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:30:47 +0000

it’s what to be expected from these techcrunch readers and their “open source” thinking but close minded ways.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:27:07 +0000

Sounds to me like you are a biased google fan bastard!

By: hippyneil

hippyneil — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:15:30 +0000

Actually the developers of Google did mean it to be “googol” but they couldn’t spell.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:17:33 +0000

I already have a G1 and like the keyboard but I am warming up to the Ion as its onscreen keyword is extremely responsive without any fat fingering issues.

Although I did see one sell for $760 today on EBay.

By: Planet Android » Blog Archive » Google IO Was the Android I Opener Developer Conference

Fri, 29 May 2009 01:19:59 +0000

[...] Then in the press room I was able to ask Google founder Sergey Brin a question on Microsoft chronically changing the name of their search engine which he replied that he likes the name Google to the laughter of the room captured in video on TechCrunch. [...]

By: Google IO Was the Android I Opener Developer Conference | GAB

Google IO Was the Android I Opener Developer Conference | GAB — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:27:56 +0000

By: mahesh

mahesh — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:15:35 +0000

So Microsoft wants me to go to Bing.com everytime I want to google something? funny!

By: mj

mj — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:01:12 +0000

good call re: go. btw has anyone visited there lately? it is horrible looking.

By: mj

mj — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:58:15 +0000

actually it is a great example and a fact that most people actually can’t tell the difference between coke and pepsi.

By: Robert N

Robert N — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:42:09 +0000

Are you keeping the HTC phone?

By: drixie

drixie — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13:51 +0000

Did you just write that straight from my brain?

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:58:41 +0000

@MG,

This is Michael Martin who asked Sergey that question at Google IO.

It was great meeting you and having lunch with you Matt Cutts & Danny Sullivan there – as well Michael Gray interjecting via Twitter

,Michael Martin

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:07:15 +0000

I always thought it was a bad strategy to use a name online that’s not obvious how to pronounce. Like, does Windows “live” search rhyme with “give”? or “hive”?

bad bad strategy.

Then again, it worked for .gif and linux.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:37:20 +0000

Bada Bing!

http://en.wikip..._Bada_Bing1.jpg

Go Bing some sopranos and godfather references on wiki

It’s also a heck of a lot faster to touch type into a mobile phone browser, no waiting for the timeout to get the double letters in.

By: Sergey Brin talks about “Newspapers & media, Breaking Page’s Law, Search is getting smarter, and Bing”

Thu, 28 May 2009 14:24:30 +0000

[...] the question about “Microsoft’s new search enigne ‘Bing’”. Watch the video [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:35:58 +0000

But man, the cloud is like, the risk free and totally outsourced perfect world!! Don’t diss the cloud!

You know, as soon as a manager in your organisation mentions the word ‘cloud’, they instantly get -50 kudos.

The simple theory for search engines.

Ye who have the most CPU cycles, disk, ram and network wins.

If not then you need smarter people…yes, you can buy that!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:32:53 +0000

We have a winner!

By: Robert N

Robert N — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:45:07 +0000

3. I banged it!

By: Robert N

Robert N — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:44:01 +0000

they should call it bang… it would give them more bang for the bucks they spend on advertising, considering the erotic tone to it…

Which sounds better?

1. I googled it.
2. I binged it.

By: Tuna Juicer

Tuna Juicer — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:20:43 +0000

I’m going to start calling you TwitCrunch writers the Techarazzi. You guys jock these start-up CEO’s/founders like they are scholars or something. Who CARES what “Sergey” says? Google was pure luck. Right place at the right time. His opinion is no more important to me than Sal Masikala’s ok?

Tuna Mike

By: a85

a85 — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:49:04 +0000

I’m pretty sure that’s what people were saying about altavista etc. before google came out.