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That's One Way To Grab Search Traffic
from the we've-got-porn! dept
When Microsoft launched its new Bing search engine recently, we didn't really know what to say about it. Some of us felt like Microsoft was trying to win the last battle against Google, rather than looking ahead to the next one; others pointed to pieces saying that Bing seemed more about knocking off Yahoo than Google, which it looks to have already done; others still pointed to all the next great search engines that have emerged over the years, and failed to unseat Google (remember Cuil?). But none of us mentioned Microsoft's apparent efforts to grab lots of search traffic by making Bing better at delivering porn results. There's been a minor flap over the way Bing displays videos in search results: users can access videos directly from the Bing site, and play a thumbnail version of them by putting their mouse over a preview image. This means that companies, schools or anybody else who wants to block the porn with web filters would have to block Bing completely (Microsoft has given a workaround, but it's pretty cumbersome). The uproar comes despite the fact that it's not all that different to the results delivered by other engines when searching for porn, although Bing seems to be a bit more, uh, comprehensive. While this sounds like a juicy mistake, the more cynical out there might see it as an intentional effort by Microsoft to grab search-engine market share by making Bing great for porn surfers. After all, it only delivers the videos -- and other sexual content -- to users from certain countries, so it seemingly is possible for Microsoft to keep at least some of it out. But with all the attention Bing's grabbed because of the uproar, and not to mention the traffic from porn surfers, it's hard to imagine they're too bothered.
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That's Microsoft's MO. It finds a successful product or service, it than moves into that market and dominates it or destroys it. Then it allows the market stagnates because Microsoft lacks the ability to innovate without someone else showing it how.
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Apple. It sucks.
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It may steal some temporary visitors away from Google, but at the end of the day big G has the money.
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All About Learning
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And here...
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Yeah, but Apple makes the stuff they steal shiny and pretty. That's really their MO. If they made an actual turd of shit shiny and pretty enough, and called it iTurd, millions would buy it.
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That's true, Sandra! When it comes to sexual intercourse, we DO need to learn all we can, which is why I choose Bing as my search engine, so that I can learn all I can from porn to be successful at double fish hooking a girl while a slam myself into her anus at odd angles, then go ass to mouth.
Thank you Bing, for teaching a young man what a girl REALLY wants...
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So when should we expect copyright lawsuits?
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Give me a break
Any "teen" that isn't smart enough to get around any filtering/limitations their parents put on them, isn't going to have their mind warped by tiny video thumbnails that merely titillate at best.
I've come to expect more from you guys than this...
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A Different Take
I don't want to receive porn, but neither do I want to receive irrelevant sales pitches that interferes with "real" research, such as product reviews. When I am looking up product specifications, I don't want the sales pitch. For example, I was looking for a watch battery where the vendor implied that they had the battery, but when you actually went there, they neither had the battery specs nor did not have the battery. In another case, I mistyped at URL and got a fake web page full of adds, instead of the "Sorry but you are an idiot for mistyping ...".
While advertising pays for our ability to surf the net, the search engines need to give us what we are asking for, not what is being crammed down our throats.
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A Different Take
I don't want to receive porn, but neither do I want to receive irrelevant sales pitches that interferes with "real" research, such as product reviews. When I am looking up product specifications, I don't want the sales pitch. For example, I was looking for a watch battery where the vendor implied that they had the battery, but when you actually went there, they neither had the battery specs nor did not have the battery. In another case, I mistyped at URL and got a fake web page full of adds, instead of the "Sorry but you are an idiot for mistyping ...".
While advertising pays for our ability to surf the net, the search engines need to give us what we are asking for, not what is being crammed down our throats.
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Better? :)
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