Well after a while of not blogging, a stressful time finishing my uni work, and a week of flu, I read a tweet on twitter that really did just grind me right to the bone. “Microsoft Serach engine BING video : http://yttwt.com/w9hn2 its taking aim at google… “. I’m sorry but there is something wrong here, I thought they had already tried this with Windows Live Search, or Live Search, and failed miserably.

I decided to take more of a look into Bing as it interested me on how they planned to beat Google at the thing Google have been doing so well at for years, and the one thing they do. Well the video on the Bing website says it all really, or rather it shows it all. M$ in all it’s ripping off glory have yet again managed to take another companies product, add a few bits here, change a little bit there, changed the name, and released it as their own.

I’ll explain this for those people who haven’t seen the video. When you open Bing you are presented with a page which looks very much like Google front page with an added banner, and side bar. When you run a search the results are displayed not in a new inventive layout, with different uses of colour, fonts, etc but they look remarkably like the results page you get when you use Google. This even goes down to the affiliated links section at the top being yellow in colour. Not only that but every other colour in the results is identical to Google colours.

I have to say come on M$ if you can’t beat them once, stop trying and let another company have some sort of product out there. Bloody monopolising corporations who have to have their mitts in everything really piss me off. Microsoft have already been caught for anti-trust infringement in 2004, and then again in 2007, do these guys never learn? Stop trying to be the biggest and best at everything Microsoft, and get better at what you currently do, Windows stinks and is full of bugs, why not move the Bing dev team over to Windows dev, add more people where it’s really needed, or are you still getting all your ideas from Apple for OS’s?

Gah sodding Microsoft AGAIN!

Adam

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