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How to make Bing your default search engine in Firefox and Chrome

June 1, 2009

ShareI read an interesting post the other day by someone explaining why they were changing their default search engine from Google to Yahoo. I can’t for the life of me remember where I read it because I would love to quote and attrubute it.  I very much identified with the point that the person was [...]

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Microsoft Launches Bing in Preview (not beta)

June 1, 2009

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Microsoft quietly rolled out its new search engine Bing.com last night. The unavoidable question for any new service like this is, “is this going to be a Google killer?” Obviously it’s too soon to make that sort of call, but you have to think that Microsoft is due to get something big right [...]

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How to: Specify your canonical to avoid duplicate content in WordPress

February 14, 2009

ShareIn a rare show of collaboration Google, Microsoft and Yahoo made a joint announcement on Thursday that that they would support a new Web standard that will allow millions of Web publishers to remove duplicate pages from their Web sites.
“There is a lot of clutter on the Web and with this, publishers will be able [...]

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Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith: “Creep” by Radiohead

January 30, 2009

ShareI’m seriously starting to wonder whether or not Microsoft’s Songsmith was released on a drunken dare by Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer. They had to know how bad this was right?

Wonderwall by Oasis
Roxanne by The Police
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Eye of the Tiger by [...]

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Multiple Versions of Windows 7? Not Again!

January 25, 2009

ShareIf this is indeed true it’s pretty unfortunate. With the now public beta of Windows 7 getting such solid reviews would Microsoft dare to fall back to one of their early mistakes with Vista? Please don’t release five or six different versions of Windows 7. Release one, great version so that everyone [...]

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Microsoft Unleashes Hell on Earth a.k.a. Songsmith (Specifically this Songsmith Commercial)

January 16, 2009

ShareThere are no words.  Please do not watch this video if there are any sharp objects near you that could be used to stab at your ears to make it all go away, don’t say I didn’t warn you.  This Songsmith ad is in HD for your added viewing pleasure.

WTF?!  Did Bill Gates kidnap these [...]

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