As Bing sang all those years ago:

We’re going well, we’re going Shell,

We’re going well on Shell, Shell, Shell,

Keep going well, keep going Shell,

You can be sure of Shell!

What do Microsoft have in common with a dyslexic rap artist?

They both spent $100 million on Bing.

(FX: Large hook from stage left)

As in Bing Crosby, or Chandler Bing?

Sounds like the new Zune to me. MS have done it again!

or Bling, the gangsta search engine….

Bing!!!, the sound of the Microshit cash register

Or is it an acronym like FUBAR or SNAFU,

hang on, is it “Ballmer, It’s Not Google”

Bing it,

Bin-it, would be better

Fuck it, is my attitude

I can guarantee that will fail, the word "bing" sounds about as good as "squirt", and we know where that got the zune (I just had to google this, I couldn't remember the name of their doomed music player!).

Paris, cos i could imagine her on TV telling me to "Just Bing it!"

MSN seach hasn't delivered accurate enough results for years so unless Bing does, it will be a Wolfram Aplha lame duck.

No amount of marketing can cover up bad search results.

For example our company comes below about 5 council reports on us (favourable thank god!), how does that happen? On Google, official website is first.

In Kent, it is a fizzy drink.

http://www.silverspring.co.uk/pages/products/prod_det.aspx?tpc=AF&fmc=AO&fnc=AX

As for the search engine - give them a few months and they'll wish it (like all their bad marketing ideas) had died on the golf course.

Once again, it's yet another lame Microsoft attempt at search. It still sucks.

"Don't dig that kind of crooning, chum"

"...for a whole generation now the word Bing is the surname of a character in a popular US sitcom"

And for several generations it is the first name of an American singer of the 40's, 50's and 60's. (where do you think the writers of Friends got the name from?)

The person that wrote the sub-head "It'll search its best for you, a rum pum pum pum" obviously knew this, though his duet with Bowie was done when Bing no longer knew who he was, let alone Bowie.

They've had 'Bob'.

Now 'Bing'

'Dorothy' must be next.

It's another in the 'Road to............' series. This time it's the Road to Nowhere.

(You have to be of a certain age)

Currently shows a blank page, and view source also. Things can only go downhill from here...

As the friends character of the same name..

Why not call it bork ? It'll reflect the status of the product much better.

Bork it !

Its completely borked !

Mines the one with the chef's hat in the pocket... bork bork bork !

"Ballmer, It's Not Google" - classic!

Can someone in open source land come up with a rival and give it the equally fitting name of Bada...

>However, I have taken to calling my Oyster card a "Doinker" and religiously "doink" in and out each day, so maybe if it catches on, it'll work.

If you hear someone saying "Doink" very loudly on the way home tonight (Moorgate/KingsX today), that's your fault. Much better than "Oyster" (I mean, wtf is that supposed to signify? An irritating piece of grit surrounded by a slimy mudbathing sluglike creature? And you can't yell "Oyster" when "Doinking", it doesn't sound right)

It is very close to the "Yoink" sound we get in Matt Groening cartoons when someone holds up something valuable and another character "Yoinks" it out of their hand/gripper/tentacle

Again with people judging based on name alone... It hasn't even been released yet and eveyone is already bashing it.

Also, lay off the name, seriously, I am still pissed that google stole the name of a mathematical constant, completly ruining it. (1 x 10^100)

Its still the only alternitive to google's advertising money printer they call a search engine, which may get better results that everyone else.

If I had to chose between two monopolies, I would chose the one that I know what they are selling and not what they are paid to sell.

Recursive names are all the rage in open source: "gnu is not unix" etc.

"bing is not google"

So this this MS embracing open source philosophy? I hope that's as close as they get. I don't want to be tongued by Ballmer.

Actually, Dung sounds more catchy than Bing.

"Dung it".

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Microsoft doesn't have a clue. How sad, it's like some middle aged

suburban rapper who lives in it's mother's basement.

Just try doing a search for "client server database" and check out the top result.

You can't click it because it has been removed, but the cache still has it!

Paris, because apparantly she knows all about client server databases. Who woulda thunk it?

Is that something to do with a weenus?