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06-07-2009, 07:30 AM
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We've got Google, Yahoo, and now Bing
We've got Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves and Dogpile, among others. Now Microsoft has re-launched its search engine as Bing.com. So, what makes a good search engine name?
A new kid has arrived on the search engine block as you all know, But what makes a great Search engine name, and can we come up with something better?? Microsoft's Bing has joined the web's big-hitters, Google and Yahoo!, in their mission to help internet users navigate the web's resources. The computer giant hopes the new search, which updates its old MSN search, will help it gain a bigger share of the search market - with Google currently taking 64%, Yahoo! 20% and Microsoft, despite being the biggest player in the software market, a paltry 8.2%. Among the crop of more recent search enterprises is Wolfram Alpha, a computation knowledge engine named after its creator, Cuil, from the Gaelic for knowledge, and hazel (that's a lowercase "h"). So what makes a successful search engine name? Part of the beauty of Google as a name is that it has no real meaning, although some believe it comes from . When "Google" started it was not a universally known word, but it is now a universally known term and is even a verb - to Google. As soon as you try to make it [a name] functional it is less interesting - less memorable." In fact, Google derives from a functional term, googol - 10 raised to the hundredth power - but this had the benefit of being so little known it didn't confuse the masses. Another serch site Wolfram Alpha, has only just started but try remembering that, its too long a name and one that you'll find hard to remember, So we come back to "Bing" will it suceed where so many others have failed. It might explain the rebranding of Ask Jeeves, several years ago, to Ask.com. Although not entirely. Ask.com reverted to its original name earlier this year, and brought back its iconic butler character, after research revealed that users missed his "friendly, human touch". But with catchy dotcom domain names in short supply - most have already been bought up - any budding search engine creator also needs to think practically about whether a suitable name is available to be bought. Of course, a snappy name isn't everything - there's also the technology that sits behind it. The CBS-owned Search.com must surely lay claim to the best search name ever, but have you ever used it? Lets Remember also Bing.com is not a NEW domain  The bing.com domain name was first registered in late January 1996, just one year after yahoo.com and a year before google.com. In its early incarnation, the name Bing belonged to a Colorado company trying to sell a "personal notification device" it described as "the first practical solution to personal and discrete cell phone ring notification." So what was this "practical" and "discrete" solution? It was evidently a small contraption that would vibrate remotely when your cell phone rang. "Bing allows a person to keep their Mobile phone in a pocket, purse, briefcase, heavy coat, in another room, or anywhere up to a few hundred feet away, and be notified of a Mobile phone call without attracting attention and without having to 'wear' a clunky phone on his or her hip," an early version of bing.com explained. By 2006, the Bing notification device had buzzed out of existence and bing.com had gone back to being a parked domain. Toward the end of that year, though, someone else snatched up the domain and tried to put the "cha-ching" back into Bing. The bing.com domain records were last updated this March and now indicate the site is owned by "Microsoft Corporation" at One Microsoft Way in Redmond. A tiny blue, orange, and white logo has appeared in the site's favicon -- that little square box that pops up next to the URL in your browser -- on and off during the day. It shows a lowercase "b" with a white-outlined orange circle inside. So it appears that Microsoft didn't come up with the name, Just used one that was already avaialable, just like all things microsoft, I wonder how much they paid for the Domain http://web.archive.org/web/200502100.../www.bing.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/200611062...tp://bing.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/200802091...1/au.bing.com/ Take the Poll and we'll see if Bing is a good one, Its a multi vote so tick all that apply 
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06-08-2009, 03:12 PM
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Personally i think Bing is a bit of a sad name, its not even original, microsoft bought a second hand domain, as opposed to thinking of a new original name.
The concept might be slightly different, but will it be as popular as google?? I think not, people trust google, they've been around now for 10 odd years and have set the standard as far as serch engines go, Microsoft couldn't even begin to complete with google with their MSN live search, so whats different about it now?? And with that 2nd Hand Domain, thats not a good start. Google is tops at the moment and looks that way for years to come :up:
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06-08-2009, 05:34 PM
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it surprises me (for the last years) how many ppl praise Google...
We humans are not even faithful to our waives, how it comes for a website? once we learn that Google is there for us all the time, we gonna seek new emotions  p.s. Hey I don't like to teach technological trends with facts of life but... 
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06-08-2009, 05:40 PM
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I guess microsoft have been dreaming of a white christmas, like the ones they used to know......... Poor old Bing  
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06-08-2009, 11:06 PM
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Not really but the questions are devised to make it fail in the polls. The Poll really says that people choose not to use it. Most probably haven't even loaded the page on their browser because its owned by the boogeyman, Microsoft.
All the while, the company that has stated several times that personal privacy doesn't exist and they will publish personal information if they find it is praised as the second coming. The company that is trying to purchase all known information for their own profit. 'Do No Evil' went out the window the day Google realized they actually needed to make money to stay in business. That was years ago. Of course, I guess its okay to violate personal privacy and break international copyright law if you have a cute multi-colored logo and offer every webmaster 2 cents per click. Just waiting to see how the anti-trust investigation turns out on Google.
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