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Bing finds meaning in Powerset

Anonymous Coward

Sentences as good as their software 

Posted Thursday 2nd July 2009 09:16 GMT

Headmaster

"Sometimes, you get a great sentence in an article and it doesn't have all the keywords but it's really the thing that best explains what the sentence is about."

Sometimes you try to write a sentence and fail miserably to convey any meaning to the readers.

James Pickett

@AC 

Posted Thursday 2nd July 2009 11:54 GMT

Exactly. That sentence makes no sense whatever, although one can almost grasp what they are trying to say. Perhaps they should look up 'metaphor'.

Geoff Mackenzie

@AC, Re: Sentences as good as their software 

Posted Thursday 2nd July 2009 11:56 GMT

Your sentence explains exactly what your sentence is about perfectly. Nice work!

Rex Alfie Lee

Bing Bing! 

Posted Thursday 2nd July 2009 22:15 GMT

Linux

Steve (I'm gonna f...ing kill Google) Ballmer: Have you tried Bing?

Steve's acquaintance: Uh no, what is it?

Steve: It's our new search tool. You should try it.

Acquaintance: How does it work?

Steve: You enter a question in the space, press Search & Bing, Bing....

Acquaintance: ...blue scream of death. I thought you'd fixed that so that it just froze instead.

Steve: I don't understand. We had Google for a backup.

Ah Bing, Vista, Windows 7, they all suck.