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Microsoft Needs a New Marketing Department
So, it looks like Bing is pushing its way back into Cable airtime, running yet another campaign of their fucking annoying “Search Overload” advertisements. Frankly, I’m tired of seeing these annoying ads, because they deliver no real content or reason to *bing* and decide. Let me pick it apart for you:
Google does not give as irrelevant as results as the commercial would like you to think. In fact, I’m willing to bet the results were turned up using Bing itself, as every time I’ve tried to use it, I’ve got nothing but random bullshit. It’s as if they have it take the page 56 results from a matching Google search, and handing that to you.
What the FUCK is this “SEARCH OVERLOAD” bullshit they keep trying to push on me? I mean, if I’m using search engines way too much, why the fuck would I need another search engine? If I’m ill with “SEARCH OVERLOAD”, searching more but on a different site isn’t going to “cure” the problem dumbasses. That’d be like trying to cure herpes with sex with people who are having a fucking outbreak.
Bing and DECIDE? What the hell does the fucking piece of shit decide? What color socks I’m going to wear today? Can I type in “Should I go to Hawaii or California?” and it’ll give me a short survey to help me decide? If not, it’s doing no more good toward decisions than Google or Yahoo! answers or any general forum already does! Seriously, don’t label your shit as “revolutionary with this feature” if its not doing anything new! People are going to figure that out as soon as they type in “Should I tell my child unicorns are real?” and they don’t get a fucking decision.
Seriously Microsoft, give it up. You’re becoming really fucking annoying.
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Can has chatbar?
In the never-ending race to be anything better than MySpace, AOL, or Disney, businesses are always looking to innovate their services, and hopefully crap out produce something that seems so fantastical it draws in customers like a hot Russian prostitute giving out free trials. Anyway, as many of us know, one of facebook’s most popular latest innovation is easily the facebook chatbar, which is simply a small bar at the bottom of the page that shows us online friends and new notifications. However, this innovation was so powerful that it defeated Chuck Norris and was crowned the new place to be for instant messaging, marking MSN, AIM, and Yahoo! messangers obsolete in the eyes of many.
However, I get the feeling we’re going to be seeing this concept used on many forums and other social networks within the next one to two years. To state an obvious example, MySpace was quick to ripoff the idea and use it on their own site. However, the chatbar has appeared in a place I’d thought I’d never see it: Youtube.
Don’t believe me? Login to Youtube and look for yourself.
Anyway, with companies like Social Engine already creating chatbar plugins for their own products and CometChat introducing such a functionality to Vbulletin, it’s only a matter of time that the concept is practically a prerequisite for any type of community website. Then it’ll be only a matter of time that the concept is worn out and nobody gives a shit any longer.
So what can you do about it? Absolutely nothing. Even if you and everybody else in the world boycotts any new sites that decide to be as innovative, there’s always going to be the idea that their site NEEDS it. Anyway, I’m going to jump far into the future, and when I come out with a forum, it’s going to have an instant messenger styled web-based chat. So it will be like having your own MSN in your browser.
And now I’ve lost any lust to write…




