And Microsoft will rename their search engine Bingnuts…

Looks like Microsoft may be trying to position Bing as the Conservapedia of search engines. Heard this on NPR’s Marketplace tonight:

Kai Ryssdal: If you have used the new search engine from Microsoft, Bing, you know it has something that Google doesn’t have: really pretty pictures on its home page. But Bing may soon have something else that Google doesn’t. Something a good deal more valuable, too—The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and other content that’s owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

There are reports today that Microsoft’s trying to do a deal with News Corp. Nothing merger or acquisition-like. But quite possibly bigger. Microsoft would pay News Corp to keep its content on Bing and off Google.

Next up for Microsoft will be exclusive deals with WorldNetDaily, Pajamas Media, TownHall.com, RedState, and National Review Online. If the Mac folks are smart, they’ll replace John Hodgman with Jonah Goldberg or Erick Erickson in their next round of commercials.

Bingnuts!

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/23/09 at 10:32 PM • Permalink

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And Murdoch marches on in his quest to own the entire planet and human race. I ain’t sellin’ though, unless the price is right.

Comment by Commander Stuck on 11/24/09 at 12:53 AM

Bing is a sad little underpowered excuse for a search engine. I have not yet figured out how to take it off my netbook. But if the Rupe wants to make a Bingosphere for the WSJ to live in, bless him. It’ll put the hype back in hypoxic.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 11/24/09 at 01:37 AM

And the RWNJs talk about the mythical, mystical George Soros, lol.

Comment by gimmeabreak on 11/24/09 at 06:07 AM

Which is fine, because Bing sucks the organic soy-dick. Oh well, when it goes down like 99% of Microsoft’s hot new products they can blame evil lieberul hackers.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 11/24/09 at 06:58 AM

I dunno, I get the feeling wingnuts don’t really browse. I’m sure they just mark their favorites:
hotair.com, sarahpac.com, extremesissypantyboyfetish.com, etc.

Comment by Cyg.net on 11/24/09 at 08:24 AM

Flippers. . . Multi-ball. . . Targets. . . Bumpers. . . Pinball . . . 1970s. . . Disco . . . BING!

Comment by Coffee Milk Toast Jam on 11/24/09 at 08:40 AM

Actually, I like Bing. I’m not unbiased, since I sort of, you know, work for the company in question, but still… I really hope this is an erroneous, “somebody heard from someone” kind of story, though, because it is pretty tone-deaf.

Comment by theturtlemoves on 11/24/09 at 09:53 AM

I swore off Bing after the first time I tried to use it, and a little paper clip popped up on the screen and stated, “It looks like you’re trying to find some 3-way lesbian midget porn.”

Dude, not comfortable.

Comment by Pumalicious! on 11/24/09 at 10:26 AM

Puma, comfortable because you were trying to find three way lesbian midget porn, or because you weren’t? This is important.

I was pretty underwhelmed by Bing. It doesn’t strike me as actually “bad”, but it doesn’t offer anything google doesn’t already have, and it’s missing some great google-only features like google scholar, google books, and google maps (which kick the crap out of microsoft’s maps). All in all, not a failure, but mediocrity doesn’t win followers.