…they need to redo the video.  Why?  Because right as the following is being said, “…instead of spitting out search results by popularity we break them into logical categories and bring the best match to the top… and show related searches right there in the results page”  The picture below is being shown.

See that?  In the search history.  Colbert Report… what the hell does that have to do with anything? Nothing!  It’s distracting.  The running search example in the video is Home Depot, so colbert?  Take it out!  I’m still looking forward to seeing how Bing will actually work though.  Will it help me realize self actualization? It better because that is how high the bar is set.

UPDATE:

Bing is now up and running.  I did a simple search comparison for “NJ Boater Safety Course”  on Google and Bing and Bing came out on top.  It came back with the most relevant sites.

Google – Results 1 – 10 of about 1,130,000 for nj boater safety course. (0.17 seconds)

Bing – 1-10 of 80,500 results

Let me help you with that, Rupert. I’m going to save you all those potential legal fees plus needing to even speak further about the evil of the Big G with two simple lines. Get your tech person to change your robots.txt file to say this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Done. Do that, you’re outta Google. All your pages will be removed, and you needn’t worry about Google listing the Wall St. Journal at all.

For more on this:

User-agent: *
The asterisk (*) or wildcard represents a special value and means any robot.

Disallow:
The Disallow: line without a / (forward slash) tells the robots that they can index the entire site.

I’m pretty sure the newspaper publishers are not going after Yahoo’s bigger-than-Google News platform because most of them are in the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium.

The Newspaper Consortium is comprised of 30 companies that represent nearly 800 local papers—a number that’s equivalent to 32 percent of all U.S. daily circulation and 41% of all U.S. Sunday circulation.