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Ex-Walmart man and current Microsoftie Kevin Turner might have peppered partners with anti-Google talking points this week, but the team that's building Redmond's challenger Bing aren't so gung-ho. In fact, they're being uncharacteristically soft-spoken — for Microsoft — about their hopes for the future and dreams of changing …

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  1. paul-s
    FAIL

    But It's Not Google

    And never could be.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      It's not Google

      And that provides me one very good reason to use it.

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  2. Sean Timarco Baggaley

    About bloody time too.

    The present state of the search industry—i.e. only one major player with a near monopoly; sound familiar?—is deeply unhealthy.

    And Microsoft have been flailing about like a drowning man for years. It's about damned time they started getting *something* right in this sector. And toning down the arrogance is an unexpected bonus.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Gates Horns

    How can Bing ever be a global success...

    When it has so many crappy portal partners all over the world? Regional Bing is a shadow of the US experience because MS doesn't want to tread on any partner toes

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  4. Mike Pellatt
    FAIL

    Not so much for Googlers to be scared of really

    "Privately, Googlers admit they are scared of Microsoft — and they should be, given it's track record of coming from behind against Novell, Palm, and Sony in operating systems, devices, and games over the years."

    I rate that track record 1 out of 3 - operating systems. Well, file serving (so 90's) to be precise, but I won't be picky.

    Where is the MS device that beat Palm ?? Shurely you can't mean Windows Mobile-based devices ??

    And if I was running a company, I'd like to make a PROFIT out of what I sell. The MS Games division is a long, long, long way from doing that. Not that Sony is, either, but large piles of cash can last a long, long time.

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  5. Robert Forsyth

    Just add Wolfram|Alpha search add-in to your browser

    to get Bing's proposed features

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/downloads.html#searchAddons

    Also, you can do the image wipes, without Silvelight, in current HTML and JavaScript on a decent browser: avoiding Microsoft lock-in.

    We users need competing search services, not competing advert services.

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