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Teh Internets Recently in Search Engines and Stuff
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Google introduced a bigger search box (for the seeing-impaired?). Facebook introduced Facebook Lite (or at least I finally noticed that they did). And this from the All About Microsoft blog:
If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft’s annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft’s Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week.Today, September 10, is the day that about 20,000 or so Softies have descended on Safeco Field in downtown Seattle for their annual pep rally and set of product demos.
Based on a handful of Tweets I’ve seen so far, meeting attendees (including those who are watching remotely) have seen a demo of Bing 2.0. At least one Tweeter claimed the new update of Bing is going to be rolled out the week of September 14.
partial h/t: cnet
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I used to work at Microsoft. Sinbad opened our annual meeting one year. That's all I have to add to this, but when you really think about it... well, just think about it. Sinbad.
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Google: PUT IT BACK. If I wanted giant text I'd set my screen accordingly. What is this, the ghost of WebTV?
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Those bastards tied up traffic again and made me miss my train. WTF? This is Microsoft. Can't they put together a tele conference?
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Sort of amazing that Microsoft still has to physically bring all 20,000 employees into one physical location for a "company meeting". I mean shades of Bethlehem Steel...whatever happend to Smart Mobs...couldn't they have a meeting via their Zunes or something?
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They do the physical company meeting because the free box lunch, the special location, and the free beer afterwards are all things that can't easily be avoided the way a webcast can. The Executive team wants employees to see and hear these things to pound in our heads the strategy the company has overall, and it has more impact when presented with some spectacle as opposed to a Powerpoint and a Sharepoint website.
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Glad to know it's Google's doing--I've spent the whole evening believing the default Firefox settings on my laptop got fucked up somehow.
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That fucking meeting messed up my evening as well. Meetings like this are all about ego. If you're gonna be a proper Evil Empire, you need your own Nuremberg Rally.
Calling Leni Reifenstahl! (oh.)
Calling Leni Reifenstahl! (oh.)
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@11
I call bullshit, baseball games get twice the attendance as this meeting on a nice day than this meeting does, and it ended at 4, so hard to see how it could have ruined your evening when the latest anyone was allowed to stay was 5:30.
I call bullshit, baseball games get twice the attendance as this meeting on a nice day than this meeting does, and it ended at 4, so hard to see how it could have ruined your evening when the latest anyone was allowed to stay was 5:30.
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