Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
And? (Score:5, Insightful)
Surprised, why?
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Surprised it took them this long, perhaps.
Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
And then the
Re:And? (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously it decided that OSX is too expensive.
Re:And? (Score:5, Insightful)
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That, I hadn't picked up on. Perhaps we should have asked on whose behalf the engine was making those decisions.
Nobody, Bing became self-aware on August 1st, 2009.
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But it isn't a search engine, it is the world's first decision enigne. Obviously it decided that OSX is too expensive.
Bing: You search, we decide.