Because It’s Not Google

BS”D

I gave Bing a quick spin yesterday. I would say that it really is not remarkable in any way – and safesearch does seem to work for me in Google.

If squeak is right that Bing stands for Because It’s Not Google, it kind of brings things full-circle. At Google’s outset, they stood for “everything not Microsoft.” So here is Microsoft pulling one on Google.

Derech Agav: I am a software developer and I am doing quite a bit of work on something called web parts which is part of .NET. Anyone who uses iGoogle is benifitting from that technology. Did google invent that or did microsoft? Either way, it was nice of the Microsoft people to give us an easy way to develop applications that allow us to create those kind of pages.

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“Has nobody used this yet?“

1) No. Because it’s no good.

2) No. Better improve next generation.

3) No. Buggy interface never gratifies.

4) No. Big investment – no gain.

5) No. Built imprudently, now garbage.

6) No. Bill* impetuously needed glory.

7) No. Bogus improvement, negative gain.

*Gates

BINGo kilobear!

BS”D

Schmutz in schmutz out! If you key in schmutz (and do a good enough job of it to fool the SafeSearch) then guess what results you get – schmutz :).

If you key in what you need for your work, or better yet divrei Torah, you get what you ask for as well.

The one problem that does occur when using any search engine to find divrei Torah is that nonsense, LH, MSR and kefira written by all kinds of malcontents or self appointed scholars are thrown in with the kosher divrei Torah. Sadly, key in the name of any of the Gedoilei Torah who lived from hmmm..the time the “Haskalah” started until now and you will see what I mean :(.

A600KiloBear-

Brilliant! I nearly guffawed.

squeak-

A more serious response:

I quickly looked at Bing, and their search has a very similar look and feel to Google’s search.

Bing has other pages for services (travel, etc.) that I didn’t spend any time on.

A Google search for comparisons between the two (yes, it’s ironic) brought up several hits.

If you google “Search Smackdown: Bing Vs. Google” you will find an article that has a side-by-side comparison with several samples that I found the most informative.

BS”D

In that case use k9 or similar to block the schmutz. But if someone else runs your network, then they can store schmutz on the main server anyway and anyone can stumble upon it.

BS”D

True – it does not have terms blocking functions. But Safe Search once blocked something totally legit for me (in a foreign language IIRC) and I had to search it in Yahoo.

i heard a new pshat in BING

Bill Its No Good