Have you seen the commercials?

They’ve been everywhere lately – making fun of keyword groupings and how one search for one thing can end up with search results for something completely different.

Bing.com has been marketing themselves as a different kind of search engine, according to them, a “decision” engine instead of a “search” engine.

What I found really interesting about the Bing.com commercials is that nowhere do they mention that they are a Microsoft product, which is one of the most recognizable brands in the world.  If you had a new product launch, wouldn’t you want to capitalize on that notoriety?

Apparently, not, although they don’t seem to mind using the deep Microsoft products to pay for the big advertising campaign.

And anyone who’s ever been on the internet knows what Microsoft is trying to do with Bing – they’re trying to take a piece out of the big boys, which, as everyone knows, is Google.  Google is the king of search engines.  When we talk about keywords, PPC ads, SEO and search rankings, it’s all in relation to Google.

Bing’s latest step to search engine, sorry, that’s ‘decision’ engine, domination is to strike a deal with Yahoo for all of its users to use Bing for all their decision needs. The terms of the deal are still being hammered out, but when the deal goes through, it will give Bing not only a larger share in the search market, allowing it to creep up on the monolith of Google, but it will also eliminate a competitor.

And what does Yahoo get out of it?

Well, first off, it wouldn’t have to maintain its own search infrastructure anymore.  And according to the deal as it stands now, they would get a share of the revenue of ads both on the Yahoo search site as well as Bing.com, which is not bad considering that they are already losing market share to Bing.

If these guys can make this deal work out, then they both stand to benefit.  As the bigwigs over at Yahoo point out, their search engine is not their major business focus.  And Microsoft has the motivation and the money to put behind become a force to be reckoned with in search – and they’ve already got distribution channels all lined up through their own products.

Part of the details that still need to be worked out is whether they will use the existing Yahoo Panama system for buying ads or switch over to Microsoft’s AdCenter.

I personally vote for AdCenter – it’s better than Panama, and is almost on par with Google’s AdWords.

Once the deal goes through, you’d better believe that I’ll be watching Bing and Google to see how this will affect PPC campaigns and search engine rankings.  While Google is still the king, Bing is starting to look like…well, I can’t think of a historical reference that isn’t too obscure that actually fits, but Bing is like the guy that’s trying to slowly and carefully take over the throne while the King has become complacent is his authority and position.

Anyone got a good reference for that?

PS – I would love to see Google get some true competition here… I think it will make both services that much better!

Now this is all just my own opinion… whats yours?

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Has anyone heard the news? We should all know by now that Microsoft plans on taking XP off of store shelves as of June 30th. (Will it actually happen, who knows? Especially since Microsoft has already pushed back this date before.)

Well it’s not a big shocker that many users are not fans of Vista. Do we remember when XP first came out? It took users quiet sometime before they fully opened up to the idea of XP. (Well maybe for some it wasn’t that hard to convince, especially if they were using the crappiest OS ever, Microsoft ME) Now over the past few years since XP was first released, many of us can safely say that we feel like XP has become a stable and decent OS.

That’s not to say that Microsoft hasn’t been doing everything that they possibly can to get users to embrace Vista.

Watch out faithful Halo gamers! In order for us to play Halo 2 on our PC’s, we have to have Vista, and oh when Microsoft finally decides to put Halo 3 on shelves for our PC’s (When that date is going to be, who knows since it took them forever to get Halo and Halo 2 out for our PC’s) guess what, Halo 3 will also need Vista to run.

Can we say Fun? Not so much.

Really can we all head out to a computer store and pick up a brand new system that has XP on it? No, but what we can do is pick up a copy of XP on the side and downgrade from XP to Vista.

Oh but here’s the kicker that happened to us about a year ago. We pick up a machine that has Vista on it not long after the highly anticipated Vista release. Well guess what, many of the programs we needed to run won’t work properly on Vista, so what do we do? Why we format and reinstall XP. Here’s where it gets funny, we’ve often heard different pieces of information regarding hardware being XP compatible.

Not so much in our situation. All we can say is thank god we had the old system still lying around because there sure were parts that we had to take out and put in the new system.

Backwards Compatible our ass!

What many of the users who love and embrace XP want Microsoft to do, is to hold back before they take it off of the shelves and retire it forever along with 95, 98 and ME. (ME, Ha what a piece of crap that was) What many of these users want is for Microsoft to keep XP on the shelves until at least 2010 when their next version of Windows is set for release.

Oh yay! Another two years and we’ll get another crap OS that we have to wait a few years before it’s considered *stable*. Oh the joys, no wonder the world is heading towards Mac’s.

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So here’s our question of the day…How do you feel about XP Vs Vista?

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