Comments on: Press That Covers Microsoft Also Sponsored by Microsoft, Praises Microsoft

By: Roy Bixler

Roy Bixler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:08:57 +0000

First, it’s “Bing”, not “Bling”.

I’m betting that was an attempt at humour.

Second, Wolfram Alpha isn’t a search engine (and is every bit as proprietary as Google and Bing.)

I don’t think that he claimed the Wolfram Alpha was non-proprietary. Do you know of any search engines that aren’t proprietary?

By: David "Lefty" Schlesinger

David "Lefty" Schlesinger — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:20:02 +0000

First, it’s “Bing”, not “Bling”. Second, Wolfram Alpha isn’t a search engine (and is every bit as proprietary as Google and Bing.)

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:25:54 +0000

Even Roy accidently gets caught up in the mess. M$ would rather have people complaining about it’s poor products that even one sentence about the real technologies.

It appears that M$ failed search service has been re-branded as Bling is to try to steal the thunder from Wolfram Alpha, which unling Bling is actually a new way to do things:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Bling is well … just that … bling. Eye candy and marketese lipstick on the failed MS search pig.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:42:56 +0000

This reminds me of this article from Coding Horrors on advertising:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000893.html