How Bing could kill Google • Hacker News Board

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by chrischen » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 10:56 PM UTC

This strategy does not benefit end users. Therefore, end users should avoid it.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

#12

Post by jeromec » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 10:58 PM UTC

Would this affect Google News? I don't think I'd miss search results without certain news publications, but it would water down my primary input for news.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by theli0nheart » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:04 PM UTC

I think this is missing the point, which is that the new generation doesn't care about ink and paper news. There are some out there that seem to believe that people will "miss" outlets such as the NYTimes and WSJ, but I don't think that they will. All that really matters to people is getting relevant information and opinions about current events.

Part of me thinks that most of the people defending ink and paper are doing so purely for sentimental reasons. Citizen journalists have proven time and time again that they can stand up to the plate and deliver interesting content.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by Erf » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:04 PM UTC

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #7

Yeah...so on day 1, Bing goes after a bunch of exclusive indexing deals, and on day 2, Google does the same. Assuming you're a content provider who is willing to do a deal like this, and you're going to get roughly the same amount of money, who are you going to go with? Probably the guy who has 70% of the market. This seems like a quick way to get Google's market share to 80%.

But the next question is: Who has the deeper pockets with which to throw more money to the content providers?

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by ironkeith » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:09 PM UTC

Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to SEO optimize a site, paraphrase WSJ articles, put some ads in and let Google index them (like already happens to dozens of blogs). Then instead of blaming Google for stealing their money, News Corp will have to blame the dozens (hundreds?) of spammy reposters who appear to fill the void.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by holdenk » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:13 PM UTC

Except exclusive content deals could be viewed as Microsoft using its leverage in an existing monopoly to unfairly compete in the search engine space.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by Tichy » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:15 PM UTC

Enough of this nonsense already, please.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

#18

Post by 979s » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:17 PM UTC

It seems as if it pays to be evil.

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by cloudkj » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:21 PM UTC

Well, I'm sure they can do some damage and slowly kill off Google engineers with their awesome jingle: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/08/0...

Re: How Bing could kill Google

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Post by greyman » Mon, Nov 09, 2009, 11:27 PM UTC

theli0nheart wrote: post #13

I think this is missing the point, which is that the new generation doesn't care about ink and paper news. There are some out there that seem to believe that people will "miss" outlets such as the NYTimes and WSJ, but I don't think that they will. All that really matters to people is getting relevant information and opinions about current events. Part of me thinks that most of the people defending ink and paper are d…

As I understood the article, is not about ink and paper. The suggestion was, that Bing will pay NYTimes and WSJ to index their content, if/when will they go out of Google index - the intention behind is, that if people want to have those sites in the search results, they will have go to Bing.