Yesterday we showed you the first Microsoft Bing commercial. We didn’t like it and neither did you. Today we have two new commercials which are, better. Yes, we have to admit, this is starting to look like something.
Could it be that Microsoft has a new “First announce shit, follow up with improved shit” strategy? They show us something dreadful which every blogger jumps on and then follow up with something which is better. We, the bloggers, users and Twitters, have to admit then that the second version is better. Result: more PR and readers are left with the memory of the second, more positive, review.
In these new ads Microsoft focuses on the downside of keyword based search. It limits the output. This isn’t necessarily a Google problem though: all search results improve radically when you use more than two keywords in your search. Still, these ads look more like they could be part of a campaign with a philosophy behind it than the cut and paste, no character, stock video mash-up we saw yesterday.
Check them out and share your opinion!















Strong commercials! Like the *bing*-sound in the end ;-)
really? have you entered “Install Linux” on Bing?
go give it a try and the post the results.
Who dares to search on B*ng?
So I really don;t want a search engine to make decisions for me i want a search engine to give my search results back that have the most information about my subject.
If i search Install Linux on bling does it say: No install windows instead?
Making the decisions which sites suits my search the best is not a decisions it is math it is 1*2=2
It is an example ;)
Wow that’s a really bad move, a “decision engine”!? Who’s looking for that?
Ads are ok, although I’m not sure users will identify that the “search drones” are playing the other-guy’s search engine part. The casting in the first commercial (family), is not very good, as the daughter doesn’t look related to either parent. I guess she could be adopted.
Not sure these ads are going to, um, pop with the general public; or cause them to stop using Google as a verb synonymous with search.
BING: But It’s Not Google