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It’s a Bing Thing

Published on June 5, 2009 in Technology. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Soon, if not already, you will be yelling at the television because you are sick and tired of hearing about Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft.

I don’t know how much television time can be purchased for $100 million, but that is what Microsoft is investing to convince you that Binging is better than Googling.

Bing is being touted as a “decision engine.” What??? Never mind, that’s irrelevant and the reason you will be yelling at the television…

Since I’m an owner of Google,  I wasn’t even going to give Bing a shot (pew-pew, bingggggg) at getting my search engine business. Besides I like AdSense and without Google there is no AdSense and I would miss the monthly checks.

But Sergey and Brin never returned my email, and actually stopped me from using SerqeyBrin@gmail.com, and Bill Gates is a Prick, so screw ‘em. I tried Bing.

I read Offbeat Travel and how much she liked Bing.

Did you ever google something and find a whole lot of sites that have gamed the google system and have no content? I’ve researched small towns and ended up in contentless sites that have asked me to put in what I know of the city.

Yes. I. Have.

I hate those spam blog sites (splogs.)

Bing has a very cool feature that shows you a snippet preview of the site/blog  just by mousing over the result. It gives you a  pretty good clue of what the site contains without having to load the page. And splog sites are sloooooow.

I also like that Bing has a short preview of videos. My attention span is pretty short, sometimes that preview is enough for me.

The Smart Guy doesn’t like that he can’t find things yet on Bing. I think Bing will get better. Microsoft might have waited another week to keep the indexing machine running at full tilt to find the kajillion pages on the web, but then there would have been a uberdillion more. As soon as they have all those abandoned blogs indexed then Bing will get around more often and the search may improve. Then again, it may not.

I’m not 100% committed to Bing, but it’s the only other option I have in my search box. No Yahoo, Mahalo, Dogpile, etc. and especially no Ask.com because I hate their commercials and sponsorship on NASCAR.

I’m not crazy about the name Bing, but if they stick too it, they should do OK. Free tip: Try to avoid this Windows naming fiasco:

  • 3.0
  • 95
  • 98
  • CE
  • ME
  • XP
  • Vista
  • 7

Bing is not a terrible name, with the right tag line. Bing! The Found It Sound.

But please, please, stay away from using the term Binging.

Free tip to Google: Buy Twitter, it’s pretty useless, but people sure do talk a lot about it. I bet you could figure a way to get those little AdSense ads into my tweets.

UPDATE: I just ran across a vertical site that is attached to Bing, it’s Bing Travel. I knew Microsoft would screw it up.

By aggregating Expedia, Cheap Tickets, Cheapoair, Priceline and Booking Buddy on the Bing Travel site, travelers can not only search for flights and hotels but book without ever leaving the search engine.

My ownership in Google can only grow. Why would these sites buy advertising on Bing, when Bing is going to serve them all to me at once when I search for the best deal in Bangalore?

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Neil Sedaka Sings: Twitter Isn’t Hard To Do

Published on March 24, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Entertainment and Technology. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Jon Stewart told Meridith Viera that he was a Twat because he used Twitter.

Ashton Kutcher sent a picture of “wifey’s” (Demi Moore) butt in granny panties to his followers.

Demi Moore's Tweet Butt

Demi Moore's Tweet Butt

Jennifer Aniston dumped John Mayer because he spent too much time on Twitter.

Since I thought I was watching the life of Neil Sedaka when I saw The Jersey Boys, I thought adapting Jennifer Aniston’s woes to Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, by Neil Sedaka was appropriate. Here’s the video, feel free to sing along. Use my lyrics and get your YouTube.com 15 minutes of fame.

Twitter Isn’t Hard To Do

Don’t Twitter our love… away you twat
Don’t lie about it you will be caught
If you Tweet I won’t eff you
Twitter isn’t hard to do

Remember when…. you Tweeted my ass
no forget it – other classless lass
“no time to text” said you,
Twitter isn’t hard to do.

They said you were busy and hard at work
Now I know, I know you’re a jerk
I call you out you loser twirp
Instead of Tweeting up I wish that you made noisy sloppy slurps.

I beg of you, drop the Twitter
Let’s screw until we have a litter
Come on baby, let’s start a new
Twitter isn’t hard to do.

American Idol Creator Simon Fuller is a Boomer Merv Griffin.

Published on April 16, 2008 in Entertainment. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Simon Fuller took a simple concept like Merv’s Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and made it work for TV. Fuller took “Let’s put on a show” idea from the Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland era and updated it.

Like Griffin, he became one very rich man because he kept things simple.

Get one B list performer (Paula Abdul) and a guitar player NOBODY outside of the business has heard of (Randy Jackson) to join a record executive (Simon Cowell) and judge 983,766 “performers” to end up with ten people with real star potential.

The real genius comes in the final eliminations – the judging by the viewers. I’m assuming American Idol gets a cut from each call. 33-36 million telephone charges every week are pure profit to the American Idol machine owned by Fuller.

It’s so ingenious that bloggers are speculating we may someday vote for president by texting. OMG, is that a laugh. Imagine the gummit getting involved in that process. If we thot hanging chads were a problem…

Fuller has to be looking at Twitter.com and salivating. Twitter is a social application which allows one to post 140 words at a time to be shared with people who decide to follow your “tweets.” I imagine when American Idol is live, the tweets are fast and furious about the performances. Fuller has yet to figure out a way to make money (twitter spam?) off tweets.

But he’s close. At the American Idol live concert, one of the local phone companies displayed messages texted, after it passed their censor, on a large screen. For the hour before the performance, it was impossible to resist staring at “Jen Luvs Daughtry” “Kelli Rocks” “Yell for Jordin” or “Pull My Finger.” Yes, they did let some “fun” messages get shown to the crowd.

Fans were tweeting through a human interface. The Fuller I.T. gang are probably working on a Twitter-like system as we speak.

American Idol is very portable also. It’s show is tape delayed to over 100 countries, with at least four other countries having their own live versions.

Fuller knows his stuff all right. His company managed or manages The Spice Girls, David and Victoria Beckham individually Amy Winehouse, Anni Lennox, and most of the American Idol winners.

Merv would be proud.mervmug.jpg

UPDATE: Randy likes to talk about singers being “pitchy.” It doesn’t matter. Sound engineers can make any singer sound great.