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Bing: What’s More Evil Than Satan Himself? 10^100

56 points by flardinois 15y ago

Kylekramer 15y ago
While the charges of whining/evil has a whiff of truth to them, this is just example #1001 that Microsoft and humor should be kept at a very safe distance from each other.
- EricBurnett 15y ago
  As a Googler I found this pretty funny myself. Most people won't even understand it without explanation, and those that do are likely the right sort to also find the decade old event it's a play off. I doubt too many people are going to take the wrong message away from this. It's nice to see people are still allowed to have fun with their products.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  Steve Ballmer has the first 1000 covered.
alanh 15y ago
I laughed. Hard. The mathy allusion to Googol is a Google-style nerd-joke, which adds another level of awesomeness. (Sorry for the lack of substance in this comment.)
sukuriant 15y ago
Uhm... I just tried it, and it doesn't work for me...
chollida1 15y ago
Good for the Bing team. It's good to see there is still room for humor in a large corporation:)
Groxx 15y ago
Do those searches work for anyone, or is it just a joke-post? Neither got the imaged result for me.
- EricBurnett 15y ago
  It worked for me earlier in the day when I tried it at work, but it doesn't appear to work any longer.
maeon3 15y ago
Why are we so concerned whether a company is good or evil? These words are irrelevant when used to describe companies like google/bing. Companies are to obey the laws of the land, and if they break them and are caught, then appropriate action should be taken. Google/Bing being good/evil is a dumb metric. Who knows what the future holds. Celebrate the good when these companies are being good, but they are groups of people who wants your money, it's on a matter of time before some bad seeds take the controls on the top, and the reign of terror begins. At that point it is the customers job to vote with their wallets and attention. Save the good/evil debate for Sunday morning at the religious services. Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity.
- true_religion 15y ago
  It's entirely plausible to be evil without breaking any laws. Good or evil, as words themselves are just descriptions for a companies motivations and plans. If a companies plans involve harming society whilst in search of profit, then they're "evil". Acting as a monopoly, and abusing your power until you're caught and censured is evil. Then trying to toe the line of monopoly abuse, so you're not censured again---is evil. It's profitable, but its clearly not to the benefit of society. -- > Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity. Right, but then you'll have to ask the question: who is a tyrant? The short form of that is "who is evil?".
archangel_one 15y ago
Maybe I'm a little biased, but I didn't find the "more evil" joke especially funny - to me it felt like they'd taken it a little too far so it was more mean-spirited than necessary. I did like the "whiner" one though.
sigmaxipi 15y ago
FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky enough to be able to avoid the policy against Easter Eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483608.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...
techiferous 15y ago
Check out http://hiybbprqag.com http://hiybbprqag.com.
staunch 15y ago
First time I've used Bing in many months.
sambeau 15y ago
It worked on one level: this is the first time I (and I suspect many of you) has voluntarily tried Bing for a long time.

56 points by flardinois 15y ago

While the charges of whining/evil has a whiff of truth to them, this is just example #1001 that Microsoft and humor should be kept at a very safe distance from each other.

EricBurnett 15y ago
As a Googler I found this pretty funny myself. Most people won't even understand it without explanation, and those that do are likely the right sort to also find the decade old event it's a play off. I doubt too many people are going to take the wrong message away from this. It's nice to see people are still allowed to have fun with their products.
redthrowaway 15y ago
Steve Ballmer has the first 1000 covered.

alanh 15y ago

I laughed. Hard. The mathy allusion to Googol is a Google-style nerd-joke, which adds another level of awesomeness. (Sorry for the lack of substance in this comment.)

sukuriant 15y ago

Uhm... I just tried it, and it doesn't work for me...

chollida1 15y ago

Good for the Bing team. It's good to see there is still room for humor in a large corporation:)

Groxx 15y ago

Do those searches work for anyone, or is it just a joke-post? Neither got the imaged result for me.

EricBurnett 15y ago
It worked for me earlier in the day when I tried it at work, but it doesn't appear to work any longer.

maeon3 15y ago

Why are we so concerned whether a company is good or evil? These words are irrelevant when used to describe companies like google/bing. Companies are to obey the laws of the land, and if they break them and are caught, then appropriate action should be taken. Google/Bing being good/evil is a dumb metric. Who knows what the future holds. Celebrate the good when these companies are being good, but they are groups of people who wants your money, it's on a matter of time before some bad seeds take the controls on the top, and the reign of terror begins. At that point it is the customers job to vote with their wallets and attention. Save the good/evil debate for Sunday morning at the religious services. Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity.

true_religion 15y ago
It's entirely plausible to be evil without breaking any laws. Good or evil, as words themselves are just descriptions for a companies motivations and plans. If a companies plans involve harming society whilst in search of profit, then they're "evil". Acting as a monopoly, and abusing your power until you're caught and censured is evil. Then trying to toe the line of monopoly abuse, so you're not censured again---is evil. It's profitable, but its clearly not to the benefit of society. -- > Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity. Right, but then you'll have to ask the question: who is a tyrant? The short form of that is "who is evil?".

archangel_one 15y ago

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I didn't find the "more evil" joke especially funny - to me it felt like they'd taken it a little too far so it was more mean-spirited than necessary. I did like the "whiner" one though.

sigmaxipi 15y ago

FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky enough to be able to avoid the policy against Easter Eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483608.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...

techiferous 15y ago

Check out http://hiybbprqag.com http://hiybbprqag.com.

staunch 15y ago

First time I've used Bing in many months.

sambeau 15y ago

It worked on one level: this is the first time I (and I suspect many of you) has voluntarily tried Bing for a long time.