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Google gets Bing'd in Sydney

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Re: Google gets Bing'd in Sydney

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Video of people passing out Bing stickers in front of a Google office?

Perhaps if there was audio of the Googlers' responses, this might be interesting, but otherwise this is just a (fairly boring) commercial for Bing.

Re: Google gets Bing'd in Sydney

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post #2

Video of people passing out Bing stickers in front of a Google office? Perhaps if there was audio of the Googlers' responses, this might be interesting, but otherwise this is just a (fairly boring) commercial for Bing.

Am I the only one who thinks it was quite funny?

Re: Google gets Bing'd in Sydney

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Who is underdog? Richest person on earth?

It's can be a good PR tactic though - polarize and conquer. Ask.com tried a similar approach when they rebranded, replete with guerilla marketing campaigns like this and fake graffiti. The problem is that Google's quite hard to hate....