Bing.com

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Originally Posted by KTBleeding

The name just really reminds me of Friends. Chandler Bing?

Apparently that's where the idea for the name actually came from.

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Originally Posted by Dismounted

Apparently that's where the idea for the name actually came from.

More chance off it being this bing, as the domain is pretty old.



Friends started in 1994, The domain Bing.com was registered in 1996, and was nothing to do with friends, Bing crosby or any other known bings

This might interest you Hanson, It was last owned by an Austrialian email company

The domain was sold several times before microsoft bought it in March this year, shows theres lack of creativity at microsoft when it comes to thinking up domain names. They say that MS are spending 100 million to get this off the ground, i can safely say that wasn't for a new domain name

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http://www1.theregister.co.uk/2009/0...icrosoft_bing/

Curiously for all their smarts, the Microsoft team picked the name of a neurotic and uncool character from the defunct TV series Friends - Chandler. This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft's failed to do sufficient due diligence on a product name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Search

Steve Ballmer recently revealed in an interview with Wired magazine that his original inspiration for the name came from the character Chandler Bing from the popular US sitcom "Friends".

I often use both Google and Bing because sometimes I just get info I need from Bing. This’s why Bing has 18% (June 2013, from comScore) of search market I think.
But it would be inconvenient to search twice on Google and Bing. So I prefer to all-in-one search engine for example: Dogpile, MetaCrawler, Googlebye etc. This type of engine can pull out data from Google Bing. I don’t like data to be blended together so I use Googlebye more.