Actually, the whole financial mess was my fault, not Google. I was manipulating the world markets and my Windows box blue-screened.

Sorry.

Can I haz bailout now?

It seems the higher the budget, the dumber Microsoft's ad campaigns are.

Bing without massive ad campaign it will dissolve among other not important search engines - livesearch users not included.
Bing as a brand is a direct hit to google in term of competition between those two giants.
Microsoft can't just give google way to fields - search engine, document edition, Chrome and Android. Has not google take over the whole netsearch and basic services as maps, advertising, videostreaming, plus mail and ideas behind GoogleGears -online desktop in fact. MS just mind its own business.
Competition is the best thing that Google faces. They know that they are the best, although they have to work harder than anyone to be in the first place.

bing ... but it is not google

I thought the collapse of the world economy was due the proletariatization of the bourgeoisie. Comment? Non?
oI need to sack my Sugar. Reality bites. Why can't we all just get a long?

Google was funded by the CIA and Microsoft is part of Bilderberg.

@Tom

Have you read the MS advert to which the article is referring?
If not then bad research, bad attitude, bad comment.

If Google wasn't mentioned, how come that the Inq concludes an attack on Google and only on Google???

Bad research, bad attitude, bad article.

I never realized MS was responsible for the economic collapse. It's so obvious now that you point it out. I'm surprised no one saw it sooner.

Actually some people probably did see it already but MS paid for their silence. Good to see Th'Inq still stands on principle and published anyway. No Swiss bank accounts to buy your silence, eh?

The Inq!

They should have told us all LOL

The colorscheme they are using for bing looks exactly like google's colors. Blue link, black text snippet and green URL. How creative...

No way in hell is Bing ever gonna beat Google. Whatever MS makes, Google will beat'em to it! Long Live Google!

Everyone knows it's all Apple's fault, anyway!

Comparing the two search engines on searching for technical information, I found that Google produced much better and more relevant results than Bing. So for the moment I'll be sticking with Google irrespective of whether Google caused the world economic collapse or not.

WTF? 2000? Googling? Pioneer? No man, you were just another one of the millions jumping on the bandwagon by then. There was a life before you.

Apart from the silly name... Bing is very very good and comes very close to Google now.

I was one of the pioneers of googling back as far in the dark ages as 2000, but finally MS has caught up..... now for that name.

And WTF is a (damn forgot the name) engine? Its just looks like search to me. Plain ol' search