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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm
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Location: just behind you!
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
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Location: Wiltshire
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Gotta be good for the users 
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bish
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:45 am
Posts: 732
Location: 'sup mah science bitchezz!?
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In a way. Google shouldn't be so scared.
Would you bing it, or google it?
Google is a dogs age old, very powerful, and alot of people are still very very loyal to simplistic things like google.
Bing will have a hard time defeating google once and for all.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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Agreed. My sister got a DVD for her birthday, 'Twilight' or something, the phrase "Google it" popped up! It'll take a lot to knock the Google brand off it's pedestal. But hey, if Google are worried, they will only work harder to bring us, their customers, some much, much better. One thing I hope it doesn't end with, is some sort of court case where Google tries to sue Microsoft because they think MS have used some of their algorithm or something...
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DaftFunk
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Wed May 06, 2009 3:39 pm
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Location: Peterborough
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Nail on the head, I was trying to explain to a friend why I wasn't keen on Bing, mainly because it has too much going on for me. I don't care for the pretty image, it has made the webpage more than twice the file size of Google's home page. Anything that takes a fraction longer to load I can't be arsed with. _________________
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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Having used Bing and it didn't have any information on the town, county or state I live in... What's the fuss? 
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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I did a Google on my name, and a Bing on my name too. Bing turned up more results (4) in the first page above the fold than Google did (2).
This does not mean that I’m hopping over to Bing - but naturally, Google’s and Bing’s results will be different. What will be interesting to see is how both will adapt to each other’s adjustments.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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I <3 Google.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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If they make it the default search engine in IE then it'll be widely used.
I've had a play, and it's not bad. Found a few things Google didn't, but generally it seems to find 90% of the same stuff. I could certainly live with it.
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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It seems to be much more country specific. When it was launched. going into the .com portal didn't find any results when looking for Ford dealers in my area! Not surprising, I got 0 results when searching for my local town and the county town as well (just their names)!
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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Even then, if IE still asks you what search engine you want to use when it first starts up, people will choose Google...
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Yep it still asks, and yep, I set it to Google.  EDITL In fact IIRC, it had pre-selected Google as the default anyway, and merely asked me to confirm or change it.
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