Comments on: Bing Wants To Feature Your Best Summer Photo — No Keg Stands, Please

By: James Stewart Jr

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:46:31 +0000

Speaking of Facebook and Bing: When did Facebook start integrating Bing into search results? There are “Bing powered” results available now.

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TechCrunch: Bing Wants To Feature Your Best Summer Photo – — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:05:46 +0000

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By: Scott Marcus

Scott Marcus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:29:05 +0000

I love the Bing photos, and I am stunned by their beuty, but I do have to agree with Malcolm Boura, the fear, shame and embarrassment that Americans feal towards nudity and sex has got to end.

In Britain, one of the most prudish nations, a NHS leaflet is advising kids that they have a right to an enjoyable sex life, it compares sex with the importance of eating fruit and vegetables every day and enourages masturbation as well.

Contrast that with Sarah Palin’s abstinence only education (which didn’t work so well in her own family).

By: led display

led display — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:27:48 +0000

I LOVE BING ..!!

By: Malcolm Boura

Malcolm Boura — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:07 +0000

Yet again Microsoft are imposing their attitude towards nudity on the rest of the world. Attitudes have consequences and it is not coincidence that a teenager in the most prudish western countries is ten times more likely to become pregnant or to have an abortion than a teenager in countries where body shame is less rampant. The harm is widespread and some is serious. A teenager in the USA is over seventy times more likely to catch gonorrhea than a teenager in Denmark. Attitudes have consequences but there is incredible reluctance to face up to the implications. Which is more important to Mircrosoft, prejudice or substantial harm to children and young people.

By: Flowersbyfarha

Flowersbyfarha — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:29 +0000

Photostock–you just answered your own question. Why pay for stock photos when they can run a contest AND grab the rights to any of the submissions for free?

Save money AND get all that PR …sounds like a win-win for them given how few people bother to read (or fail to understand) TOUS &/or contest rules.

By: Subhankar Ray

Subhankar Ray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:42:28 +0000

We have been submitting AAfter toolbar to IE Add-ons Gallery for last few months. They are rejecting it without giving any reason.

The AAfter toolbar is already reviewed by CNET that it is spyware free.

They do not even care to give us a reason wasting our time, their time. I hope they will learn someday to improve their public relation contacts otherwise people will reject anything Microsoft as much as they can.

Hope this photo thing will not be another way for them to make some more people unhappy.

By: Alex F.

Alex F. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14:05 +0000

The problem with this contest (and so many others) is that they claim rights to the submissions and not just the winners. If it were only rights to the winner(s), that would be fine, but this is what is commonly called a “rights grab” in photographer circles.

By: Photostock

Photostock — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:35:15 +0000

A bit strange that they want the photo for free, as the ones they normally use come from stock image agencies and are presumably not free images.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:29:58 +0000

I love the pictures, but hardly see them as I always Google Bing from my Google bar in Chrome.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:01:25 +0000

I like the Photos, I like the search results, so far three weeks with Bing and happy, I switch back to Google just to compare and I find out that in most cases Bing and Google are dead even.

By: Leon Noel

Leon Noel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:00:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:23:44 +0000

I wouldn’t say they’re biased. They do seem to focus a lot of their energy on writing Twitter, Google and Apple stories.

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:52:23 +0000

How exactly is this anti-microsoft?

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:51:24 +0000

Same.

By: Jim Z.

Jim Z. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:29:27 +0000

The fact that your picture might be selected and if selected will be viewed by millions of people around the world (with recognition of that – check the small copyright symbol at the bottom left hand corner of each picture) should be enough of a payment.

Millions of photographers will submit pictures for those bragging rights.

By: Peter Simov

Peter Simov — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:27:27 +0000

Yes, I like the simple view as well. Otherwise it becomes somewhat annoying.

I guess they are not aiming for people that have enough free time on their hands.

By: Jim Z.

Jim Z. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Welcome to Tech Crunch – although I must admit that this is one of the few posts about Microsoft that is neither negative nor is it positive. It is actually straight reporting.

By: Tech 24 Hours

Tech 24 Hours — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:15:15 +0000

Smart move by Microsoft. Using Facebook’s popularity to promote Bing.

By: Henry Biz

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:45 +0000

Interesting campaign. Would like to see how many submissions they are able to get.

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:12 +0000

I was so in until the keg stand photos were ruled out.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:59:43 +0000

Forgot to mention that to turn the images back on, just change the 0 to a 1

By: Wired

Wired — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:57:44 +0000

You guys don’t seem like an unbiased group. You are clearly anti-Microsoft, pro-Google, pro-Twitter, etc.. Your biased view shows so clearly..

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:57:29 +0000

If you really find them distracting, you can turn them off by putting in this link to disable the background images: http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

Personally, I enjoy them very much.

By: Ujjwal Gupta

Ujjwal Gupta — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:53:49 +0000

crowdsourcing here I come!!!

still a million people will submit, MS will filter 100s and will use them to make money

awesome business model