If you were watching last night's episode of
The Vampire Diaries (believe us, we were not), you probably saw something a little... strange. Yes, with the opening credits still running, two women (sorry, we have never seen a frame of this show so we don't know who these broads are) sitting in front of a laptop converse about a runaway teen named Isabelle Peterson or something like that. Unsure of whether or not this suspicious Peterson character was using a fake name or not, the ladies needed... well, they needed a tool that would allow them to search the vast and beautiful world wide web of information. "But where'd she get Peterson? Classmate? Best friend?" the blond sitting at the terminal wonders. "So..." she says, turning to the computer, "... I Binged it." Wait, what? You Binged it? Hmm... we've never heard that one before, though we have to say in this case, it seems like
Bing really came through for the ladies, nailing down the information they were looking for with ease. It's quite an extended piece of advertising, really. But seriously... Binged? Guess it'll have to do. Video is after the break.
[Thanks, Eva]
posted March 26th 2010 8:02PM
@anderlan The comment system completely ignored my strikethrough tags around the prevalent eponyms above.
Microsoft and Vampire Diaries. Bing. Bang. Bung. All apply to Microsoft, and yet only one has anything to do with software.
I say fake. The bimbos didn't have 15 tool bars installed in IE.
i engadgeteded it
@engadgeted LOL! +1
I've never heard of The Vampire Diaries. Is it about how Microsoft sucks the life blood from it's partners before leaving them dying and zombiefied? If so then countless numbers of Microsoft partners have been "Binged".
they used bing to creep.
I binged your mom.
Maybe it should be, "bung" it? Or "bang" it?
"I bung it"
"I bang it"
hmm...
@gadgetfanboy
Who wants to tell this guy that Bing's not a real word...
....or just let him keep flailing in Grammatical No man's land.
Maybe "binged" sounds lame, but as a geek you must love the recursive acronym Bing...
@weg It's not Google!
It is already part of the lexicon,
just not in English...
并 -Combine/Indeed Not
病 - Sick
兵 - Soldier/Army
冰 - Ice
丙 - Third
饼 - Cake
屏 - Hold your breath
秉 - Grasp/Hold
柄 - Handle
Thanks Google Translate.
Microsoft, screw off.
A horrible show using a horrible search engine. What else is new?
@mtnDewFTW Dude your stupid it works almost as well as google but then again your probably using a crappy iMac.
@Sodapop Yes, I actually am using a iMac. And I really don't see what a computer has to do with how good the search engine is..
And you said it yourself "it works ALMOST as well as Google"
Almost.. lol
@mtnDewFTW
It matters because most folks that use a Mac have an axe to grind against Microsoft. Hardly an objective opinion.
I use Bing and Google. Both have their strong points and weaknesses. Try it for a few days and you would see that.
@bjsguess
I use Bing and Google. Both have their strong points and weaknesses. Try it for a few days and you would see that.
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Way to sit on the fence. Pfft.
@Wesscoast
You know, it is ok to be neutral. Being a fanboy for one side or another is not a requirement.
@flarkle So now I'm a Google fanboy?
Alright, so just because I prefer Google over Bing doesn't mean I don't like Bing because it's made by Microsoft. I have always used google, and I just like how it works. I don't see how that makes me a fanboy. I'm not saying GOOGLE TIL DEATH. I'm just saying AT THIS MOMENT, I don't really like Bing that much
I should make a search engine and name it Fargle. That way, you can go fargle yourself!
"I don't know who this person is"
"Oh, let me Fargle that for you"
After they have binged, these gals might purge.
binge already has past tense of binged:
/freedictionary.com/
intr.v. binged, bing·ing or binge·ing, bing·es
1. To be immoderately self-indulgent and unrestrained: "The story is like a fever dream that a disturbed and imaginative city-dweller might have after binging on comics" (Lloyd Rose).
2. To engage in excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink.
Typical MS. "Banged' would have sounded cooler but MS is too up tight to advertise it.
It's pretty obvious that's where Balmer wanted to go with the "name" bing in the first place...
He's so jealous over "googled" I think he might just burst.
Wonder if bing will be the default search engine on the new bada OS...
i hadn't heard of either of these so i googled it, turns out bing is like google except less used!
@Spatev Not at all. Haven't you heard the ads: bing isn't a search engine, it's a "decision engine"..
I'm sorry, but I do not want Microsoft making my decisions for me.
@LEDfoot Fingerbinged
Yeah, I've "binged" before... and it was good. Sometimes I'll "google" here and there, but I'll be damned if I ever "yahoo" again.
"Bada-bing!" > "Bing" or "Binged it"
It'll never work out for them. "Bada-bing" already has all "bing"-related oratory real estate on lockdown.
I wasn't sure what "Binged" meant, so I Googled it.
Wow, The Vampire Diaries is just being continualy binged by Microsoft.
"Binged it"??? Just doesn't cut it
@Girish
The difference.. PEOPLE started saying Google before Google started begging us to say it.
Microsoft needs to somehow attach 'saying Bing' to its Windows monopoly. That's the only way they ever win anything.
I remembered that I said "I banged you" several times to some girls ... hmmm .... :D
isn't bing an acronym for "bing is not google"?
It is too late for microsoft. Google is the name brand for searches. Just like how Kleenex is the name brand for tissues and band-aids are the name brand for... band-aids.
Bada
BING!
I thought it said Binge-d. As in: 'I binged on that wedge', or 'Binge drinking'.
''Oh yeah! Gotta give that girl a binge and grab...''
best product placement I've seen is on Cougar Town with Courtney Cox Arquette
She and another of the female (MILF) leads do a sexy little chest bump whilst saying "Bing" - may not have anything to do with the search engine but it got my attention
unfortunately I couldn't find a link to give you guys
It's just so sad. I mean really, it just reeks of desperation. MS should be concentrating on just making the search engine better, not advertising. When did Google actually advertise its search engine? I don't think I ever seen an ad for Google (the search specifically, they advertised some of their other stuff), and they never tried to force the "google" verb on anybody. All they did was concentrate on making the best search engine possible. Until MS understands that, it'll always be number 2.
@2late2die
They have been. It wasn't long ago that bing was the old MSN search. That thing was terrible, but more and more they are closing the gap between it and google.
It just isn't the peice of crap MSN search was and I fully support it so that there is some nice competition in the serach market. Although the market share is pretty dismal (google has ~90%) if they keep improving it like they have then I could see them taking a third of the market but not really ever taking over.
Oh, come on guys, you know you watch every episode of the Vampire Diaries
i don't know how to use the internet, can i google on bing?