a shite service

Just like the ones we've got to know.

Its not as good as Google.

And smells like a foetid poodle.

And makes you really want to throw.

(up that is)

Sorry Bing.....

Excellent - we could do with some Google competition.

(Also, just to get the ANTI-MS BS in early: anything MS is evil, Live Search sux, M$, rant, foam...)

I can't see "Binging" someone passing into to language in quite the same way as "Googling" them has.

On the other hand, lots of jokes for the generation old enough to remember Bing Crosby: "Gone phishing..."

My friend's first name is Bing. It means Ice in Chinese. Are they trying to compete in China with a "cool" name? "Ice Search" could easily shortened into iSearch, so where is Apple on this one? Is this a slippery slope?

"Microsoft said in a USPTO filing that it planned to use Bing for “providing a website and website links to geographic information, map images and trip routing”." ... By Thomas Bottrill Posted Monday 6th April 2009 15:04 GMT

Thomas,

There is one kind of trip which definitely needs one to know oneself and the greater environment better than just well, to ensure it isn't a bad experience you'll never ever want to repeat and/or try again, although if truth be told, to have a root route map for those journeys will make you rich beyond any measure in even those wildest of wild dreams. And it would certainly be a valid attraction for the likes of a Microsoft who have lost the edge to keep them alive and vibrant ........ rather than just settling for an easy chair and carpet slippers and everything just passing them by.

The down side of that sunny side of the street tale though, is make a wrong move, or take a dodgy hit, and you meet Mr and Mrs Insanity on Tour and feel right at home in their company..... which given the State of Play presently, would be a definite Improvement, for there is undoubted Madness and Badness in the Air, is there not ?

Silver Spring Mineral Water Company here in Folkestone, Kent, have been making a fizzy drink called Bing for donkeys years.

I think I may well drop them a line to let them know... Tee Hee!

Fight fight fight.

I must admit that my first reaction was: oh no, not another Zune.

Zunes, Bing, ... it all seems so middle class, much removed sorta aspirant hype with a touch of glitzy PR to create an aesthetic in, hmmm, 48 hours?

Maybe:

Ding

Cling

.

.

.

(the "ing" I like)

Ding this, Kling that, Bing the other ...

Kumo instantly reminds me of tyres, Kumho tyres to be exact. Though I still think it's a better name than Bing. Or should that be Bing! ?