June 06 2009 Finally, another ‘verb’ search engine
As you probably haven’t already heard, Microsoft announced a new product this week called ‘Bing‘ (www.bing.com) to compete with other services like Google search and Yahoo search. They’re not calling it a “search engine” per-se, they’re calling it a “decision engine”. While the concept seems like it’s on the right track, time will tell if it catches on with mainstream use.
On to my point though….
Everyone’s used the term “I’ll Google it” at some point in their lives but you rarely hear someone claim “I’ll Yahoo it” or “I’ll Live Search it.” I’ve always wondered why none of Google’s competitors ever caught on to the fact that the names of their search engines were all nouns and not verbs. Now-I’m not saying that Google’s insane level of success in dominating the search market is due to the fact that their name can be used as a verb. I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that it doesn’t suck as badly as Yahoo and Live Search do.
Saying “I’ll Bing it” doesn’t seem to have the same catchy flow as saying “I’ll Google it” has. Chew on these examples and see if you agree:
I’m interviewing a potential employee and want to do some due-diligence: “I’ll Google Him” or “I’ll Bing Him” ….a little creepy sounding right?
“I know everything about horses, I Bing’d them”
Share on FacebookMarch 31 2009 It’s April 1st and Where’s Conficker?
This new ‘Conficker’ worm is begging to be put into perspective, so here goes: It’s a hoax.
For the last few days I’ve been subjected to hearing just about every customer, talk-radio personality, tech blogger, and news anchor talking about it and expressing concern over it.
I’m betting there’s a doomsday-scenario freak somewhere at whatever tech security firm discovered the supposed ‘worm’ that blew the whole idea of this virus out of proportion and now everyone is paying the price for his paranioa.
Then again-I’ll gladly scan your computer for viruses (for a fee) and install antivirus software (for a fee) and even install security updates for your operating system (for a fee).
Maybe I shouldn’t complain…those ‘doomsday freaks’ are who keep geeks like me in a job.
Godspeed.
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