Microsoft's new search engine - Bing.com

[Leading Names]

Looks MS are indeed going to call their new search engine bing.com.

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/n...crosoft-spend-100m-search-engine-called-bing/

I much prefer the name kumo.com to be honest, bing.com sounds a bit silly.

Interesting to note that MS bought bing.com back in 2007 for 25k.

- Rob

 

[Adapt Web]

imo, bing is more marketable and web 2.0'ish.. B!NG

 

[Leading Names]

Seems I'm not the only one who doesn't like the new name...

http://www.mov99.com/dvdbbs/uploadfile/2005-3/200531411314298.jpg

:lol:

 

[DomainScoop.Com]

bing is looser and Bling is winner

likewise Cuil was looser and Cool was winner

 

[Donald Aquilano]

Good god there are better names out there.

 

[stewie]

Bing oh well goes with Zune and Vista and Windows 7 all great names ound:

Good thing they have cash to burn.

:yo:

 

[snicksnack]

Microsoft managed to register / buy? a lot of the bing ccTLDs. (for example .de, .fr, .ru, .dk, .co.uk...)

wwwbing.de was registered today, so the typosquatters are getting ready as well

 

[demo]

MS has also bought bingit.com - I noticed back in 2007. They must have had this planned a good while ago.

My domains always come up better in live.com than goog - hope it stays that way with bing.com.

I do think a good ad campain will get a lot of people to switch. Many newbies are afraid of the term google.

 

[Jilo]

just been onto bing.com - it says Bing and decide !! haha :lol:
what an awful slogan! what an awful name for a search engine imo!

 

[JuniperPark]

Our own DNF Member Actnow is the owner of the .info of this domain... hopefully he'll make some nice bucks on a sale! I did well with WII.info, after getting a bunch of offers when the WII was announced.

 

[Focus]

They should have used the domain "Juice.com" they own that they bought out from under a fellow DNF'er when it was for sale CHEAP. Juice.com would be a fantastic name for them to use instead of the bing.com domain...they are much better suited to a site about a certain cherry with bing.com lol

 

[Gerry]

Yo, bro.

No Bling?

Musta been too much kaching.

 

[Jilo]

hope the guy that owns .info does well, but i agree with Focus... juice.com sounds like a better search name... i could say some awful juice/search related slogan here but i won't!

the more i think about it, bing.com sounds like it should be an adult name!

 

[james2002]

When I type www.bing.com , there come a file to save on my computer. Are they trying to bug our computers?

 

[Jilo]

no file comes up on my computer, just the coming soon page. (windows vista using firefox)

 

[Seraphim]

What was wrong with Live.com? I simply don't understand MS anymore when it comes to search. What in the hell are they doing other than looking really stupid? They crashed and burned with Live.com so hard, they felt they needed a rebrand? Forget the "brand" people, focus on better search results.

 

[south]

What was wrong with Live.com? I simply don't understand MS anymore when it comes to search. Forget the "brand" people, focus on better search results.

Exactly. They have NEVER figured out how to get relevant results. Hell, they could do better with a copy of lucene. I actually think yahoo has some of the best actual results out there, possibly even better than the big G. Of course, they don't have the market share, and google doesn't take 10 seconds just to load all the ads when you go to their page. This is what everyone else seems to overlook. The whole reason people started using google was it was a fast page to load with relevant results. And the rest is history.

 

[Seraphim]

Just checked out their video over at bing.com. First problem I see, again they are using high digital photos as the background of the engine. Hopefully that is optional. That is the killer with Yahoo, the interface has too many graphics, needs to be scaled way down. MSN can't understand something that simple?

I agree with South,

[1] Speed
[2] Results

It's like Live.com Images, it's better than Google Images, but way slower. So I use Google Images instead.

 

[mediawizard]

Both the video and the 'explanation' seem to have a decidedly US-centric stance.

http://www.decisionengine.com/Letter.html

I like the name though

 

[dnalias]

they will be throwing $80M in advertising at this.
i'm sure the name was a little more thought out than you may want to believe.