PCWorld is a nice magazine/portal. I personally like it & have been a follower since good old paper magazine & free CD days.However in this case it too has compiled a lot of snippets including the MSFT press release.

I think your outburst towards the writer is completely uncalled for. And, unless it were a momentary lapse, I wonder you to be one amongst the fault finding frustrated lots. The time you spent compiling URLS & keying in your mannerless verbiage or should I call it garbage, you could’ve done some productive search around the beautiful Bing and posted for everyone’s benefit & liking.

I’m not game for a war of words. Only trying a little redirection that’ll benefit all of DW.
In the end, Ravana is as famous as Lord Rama. Even though this is the DevilsWorkshop, the choice, to be is yours. I hope you atleast understand the difference between a metaphor and literal, unlike “News Articles” and “Research”… just kidding this time Peace!

Hash

Nice compilation; I’ve seen the Beta and I can tell you it’s got some very slick features. I’m quite impressed with the decision making prowess. This is Microsoft’s gift to the novice and smart users alike.

With that said, I’m little skeptical of it taking on Google directly. Google’s now synonymous with internet search and it’ll take a lot of effort & time for MSFT to play catch. Hence all the big bucks!

However, I recommend everyone to try it. It’s really nice!!!

Thx,
Hash

Appreciate the efforts you made to check its validity. However, before writing a comment like this, you should have done more research.

I hope we all understand the difference between research articles and news articles. This article is NOT research… but NEWS – and that too public domain news.

I suggest you check out some official documents from Microsoft on Bing.
Press release(info for journalists): http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/may09/05-28NewSearchPR.mspx
http://www.bing.com
http://www.decisionengine.com/Letter.html

Like we all know, a big news like this tends to get covered by various blogs and websites world over to spread the word and inform readers through different channels… Just like how we, at DW are trying to keep our readers updated. Similarly, PCworld is no exception and they have all the rights to cover this news as well.

So, this brings us back to your question – “Isn’t this a rip off the following (or similar) PC World articles?”
The answer is NO. This news info has been pieced from Microsoft’s official Press Release (the link of which is provided in the post) which is meant to be distributed via different channels of communication!

Introduction: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165462/microsoft_may_rename_live_search_bing_massive_ad_campaign_planned.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

Ad budget: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165586/5_things_i_want_to_know_about_bing.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

Features: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165652/hands_on_with_microsoft_bing.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl
and
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165656/bing_a_visual_tour_of_whats_new.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

Verbification: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165728/what_the_bing_is_microsoft_thinking.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

In the end, the writer writes: “I really can’t wait to see what lies beneath their secret covers.” Wow! And I can’t wait to see which other original articles the writer is going to take apart and then sew those pieces into another piece of junk!

Where is the original research? Do people no longer produce something innovative?

Why waste time to change words – and disk-space to store them? just give a direct link to the readers! It’ll be quicker and more convenient.

The original writers really have some knowledge and expertize in their fields; they write what suits them, and do research before posting anything. That’s what makes them world famous. Then there are copycats so desperate to earn money…