{"id":235,"date":"2009-05-29T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-05-29T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T03:04:39","slug":"do-you-google-it-or-bing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2009\/05\/do-you-google-it-or-bing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Google It Or Bing It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Microsoft are launching another attempt to overtake Google in the search market.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/69E3x\">Microsoft Unveils Bing Search Engine<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Could be good &#8211; Google is in danger of become so intrinsic to our life on the internet, that if something ever happened &#8211; (major data centre disruption, the amount of personal data they potentially hold, etc) &#8211; could we actually cope without Google?  <\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4w4W7fQHgYw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Enter &#8220;Bing&#8221; &#8211; what Microsoft is calling their &#8220;decision engine&#8221;, rather than a search engine.  The glossy video looks nice, and if it can do what the video suggests, it certainly has potential.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage though, I&#8217;m not convinced.  Some lucky people have already been given the chance to use it &#8211; the rest of us need to wait until next week &#8211; and the reviews will start to appear in coming days.  But a glossy promotional video is one thing only &#8211; lets see it in action first.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Bing&#8221;?  I just think saying &#8220;I googled this&#8221; sounds better than &#8220;I binged this&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Microsoft are launching another attempt to overtake Google in the search market. Microsoft Unveils Bing Search Engine Could be good &#8211; Google is in danger of become so intrinsic to our life on the internet, that if something ever happened &#8211; (major data centre disruption, the amount of personal data they potentially hold, etc) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}