I think everything 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.

Really, Microsoft? You think running a super-cool ad campaign is going to convince people that your rebranded, mediocre search engine is worth using? Good luck prying marketshare away from Google’s deathgrip.

The only Bing worth checking out is Carmella. Oh yeah.