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Anyone know why it is called Bing?
It seems fine as a person's name but if I was going to set up a search engine I would want to try and think of a cool catchy name.

Bing just seems lacking. Mind you Twitter hardly sounds brilliant and it has taken off (pun not intended)

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Anyone know why it is called Bing?
It seems fine as a person's name but if I was going to set up a search engine I would want to try and think of a cool catchy name.

Bing just seems lacking. Mind you Twitter hardly sounds brilliant and it has taken off (pun not intended)

The developer was a big fan of this character:

I was using the internet before it was created.

MrH wrote:I just don't see why anyone would use IE at this point, Firefox and Chrome are just better in every way.

Firefox, really?

I don't understand all the love for Firefox... when I used it, it wouldnt load sites correctly and so I got it the hell of my machine.

Google Chrome seems to have too many holes where stuff that is useful used to be.

halonachos wrote:I use firefox and IE, because I like to double dip. Anyways, you get a discount on Games Workshop's site if you use firefox so I use firefox to snag great deals on the interwebs.

You get a discount for using a particular browser?

I don't realy care what browser I use, the Internet is the same for me.

OMGz I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUYS AREN'T USING AOL OPENRIDE

But on a serious note. I respect that for a lot of people it seems so much simpler (and satisfactory) to stay with the default browser, be it IE, safari, or firefox (ubuntu etc). But from my experience, pretty much everyone finds the alternatives superior in some way, and I think this is partially due to a prolonged focus on the downsides of their default browser (and possibly due to a will to be perverse).

And for the record, I am using Chromium (OMG so perverse!)

Some people need to get a life. They are all as bad as one another. When I try and access a HP Media server at work, Chrome feels it needs to download something, but nothing happens, IE goes straight in. On the other hand, IE seems to kick off more graphic card errors. It's been awhile since I uesd the other ones, but they had niggles as well.

The world of PC software is the biggest con/ rip off / time waste on the planet. Nothing is really 100% compatible, there's always some "tweak" you have to do get a job done.

Wolfstan wrote:Some people need to get a life. They are all as bad as one another.

That's provably false

I use Chrome and rather like it. It is pretty cut and dry once you get use to its configuration and I love it for that. It also feels faster on my PC then IE or Firefox

I feel a bit bad for Internet Explorer, don't you agree?

Firefox all the way. Having plugins to do almost anything you want rules.

BTW, is there a Dakka plugin for Firefox?

Seems the whole "test" was just a hoax.
http://www.tgdaily.com/software-brief/57659-study-linking-ie-users-to-low-iq-was-a-hoax

Good way to flush out elitists though.