Bing is a noun until WE say
05 06 09 10:19 by vagrant
Microsoft has created (or rebranded and upgraded) the search engine "Bing". Good luck to 'em.
Anyone who knows me, knows I am not an MS fan, but if they make a better search engine, good for them, they need a win considering all the turds they have been pushing out. I haven't used it enough yet to make a judgement but I will give it a shot.
My point today, however, is not the search engine wars but hubris and marketing. I came across an ad on the web for Bing with the following tagline: "From now on bing & decide". They are using "bing" as verb. You know what MS? You don't get to say that. You made Bing. A thing. A noun. WE, the collective, are the ones who can make it a verb. I don't want to descend into the argument of how right or wrong that is to do, my point is that they don't get to force it on us a verb, it is very presumptuous.
Anyone who knows me, knows I am not an MS fan, but if they make a better search engine, good for them, they need a win considering all the turds they have been pushing out. I haven't used it enough yet to make a judgement but I will give it a shot.
My point today, however, is not the search engine wars but hubris and marketing. I came across an ad on the web for Bing with the following tagline: "From now on bing & decide". They are using "bing" as verb. You know what MS? You don't get to say that. You made Bing. A thing. A noun. WE, the collective, are the ones who can make it a verb. I don't want to descend into the argument of how right or wrong that is to do, my point is that they don't get to force it on us a verb, it is very presumptuous.