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Google responsible for economic ruin
GIGANTIC VOLE Microsoft's advertisement for its new Bling, er Bing, search engine seems to be blaming Google for the collapse of the world economy.
The advert implies that the US was buried under and distracted by link overload and therefore failed the notice that the financial system was collapsing about its ears.
"While everyone was searching, there was bailing. While everyone was lost in the links, there was collapsing. We don't need queries and keywords if they bring back questions and confusion. From this moment on, search overload is officially over," the advert says.
While not mentioning Google by name, the ad spot certainly implies that the search engine isn't up to scratch and is really responsible for people not being able to make their mortgage payments, apparently.
The Microsoft Bling TV advert in question is the first in a $100 million world-wide campaign to try and get everyone excited about the Vole's latest search engine.
We have heard about casting your business rivals as the bad guys in adverts, but dumping all the blame for the world's recent financial troubles on Google has to be a bit rich, even for Microsoft. One might just as well say that since most businesses' computers run Windows then the economic collapse was all Bill Gates' and Steve Ballmer's fault. µ
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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