"Bite my Bing, baby." - Microsoft

[SpiralHawk]

“...Search is still essentially a Web site finder.” Mr. Lu says. “It’s all nouns. But the future of search is verbs — computationally discerning user intent to give them the knowledge to complete tasks...

"The phrase that Microsoft uses is “decision engine,” as opposed to search engine...."

From the Sunday NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/technology/with-the-bing-search-engine-microsoft-plays-the-underdog.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

[tjdee]

1. Well, that got my first chuckle of the day nt

[geckosfeet]

2. bing bites - stealing tech from google and writing a 'news report' about it

clever

Now they just sit back and wait for the herds of sheep to click their links

[onehandle]

3. Whatever slows the Google total monopoly of the web. nt

[qb]

4. I've only used it a few times & IMO bing sucks. Google works much better for me.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Yuh, well I'm into JoeAnt and Oingo as my search engines

http://www.webjunction.org/basic-skills-web/-/articles/content/433154

[qb]

7. I'm checking out JoAnt, but every link I've found to oingo redirects to Applied Semantics,

which has been acquired by Google. Do you have a link to oingo that works?

[SpiralHawk]

8. Nope. I was just being snarky.

Perhaps Oingo has been devoured by Google in Bing and thus gone the way of the dodo?

However, on the bright side, you can always check out Oingo Boingo - formerly an American new wave band.

[blogslut]

6. Good old MS

Steal an existing idea and slap a new name on it.

It's called "the semantic web" and so far, it's a whole lot of meh.