Be on the Stupid Lookout
Advertiser: Microsoft
Product or Brand: Search Engine (named Bing)
Microsoft will soon be entering the world of search with its new search engine “Bing.”
With a name like Bing, they’re already off to a stupid start, thereby creating a directly proportional probability that their new spots could suck too.
What do you think of when you hear the name Bing? I think of Bing Crosby the late, great crooner, but that doesn’t bring me any great sense of anything modern. The most modern thing Bing Crosby did was appear on MTV with David Bowie , back when they actually used VJ’s.
But if anybody can gravitationally persuade me to sing Bing, I suppose it would be Microsoft, the biggest object in the known universe.
Rest assured, you are going to see some TV commercials and then pretty much everywhere else you could possibly imagine. All we ask is that you stay indoors and at all times and remain ever vigilant.
Dudes, check the spelling on your site’s header : “Do you think you’re studid?” S-T-U-P-I-D.
I’m on the stupid lookout!
Did I win?
I should say so! The devil is always in the detials…
That and a tendency to rely too much on spell check.
I thank you for playing and welcome input on anything else you see as I humbly recover from a case of “Stupid is as Stupid does.”
I agree with you 100000%. Bing is a stupid name for a search engine.
The PR team goofed bigtime. Hard to believe they have all the money and they
screw it up.
PING would be better, as in “I pinged you last night.”
But Bing? Stupid stupid name. Just like Stupidweek, er, Newsweek,
tried to redesign itself last month and what a farce Stupidweek has
become now, Total failure of redesign. Ouch.
Bing will never last. Dummies! Good post, sir.
Speaking of new words, you might be interested in my coining of the
word SCREENING to stand for reading text on a screen, so as to
differentiate it from reading on paper. Reading is reading on paper.
Screening is reading on a screen. The Urban Dictionary has already
accepted this. New York Times and Tech Review at MIT soon to report on
this. Stay tuned. What is your POV on this new idea? See my blog at
zippy1300.blogspot.com for background info on screening.
Can you do a blog one day on my screening versus reading idea? YES NO? It might be stupud too, but it might prove useful as well. Let readers discuss it, if nothing else. I don’t mind being stupid. SMILE. It’s my middle name.
Indeed. Screening is an intriguing concept and I would be inclined to agree. I think the way we view and interpret information on a screen or monitor of some sort is different than we we read a book let’s say. And I think that website analyitcs tracking cursor movement and studies tracking eye movement do in fact support this. I will swing by and learn more and let’s see if we can engage some broader participation.