Declaring a trend based on blog comments is stupid
Apparently Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is successful. Why? According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Bing is “something of a hit” because a tenuous majority of his readers says it is, although if you actually read the comments many are positive but most are just shocked it doesn’t completely suck.
Arrington didn’t even bother to run a poll or survey of his own readers - he just read through the comments and declared a Microsoft victory in his headline, thereby guaranteeing pageviews and a whole new heap of blog comments. That’s great marketing, but what happened to real journalism?
For a more sensible review, try Mashable.
