Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Joking giants


Okay, so the corporate kings of April Foolers are Google. These guys plan for April First like wiccans setting up for Samhain.

But it turns out that Microsoft, in its quest to take search market share from the Big G, are fighting back.

Yesterday, if you went to bing and searched on the term “Google”, here’s the result:




If you’re one of the millions who don’t use bing, you should know that the little squares are incidentals to your search. So, hovering and  clicking on the four would get you respectively (starting with blue):


Which led to:

The red one was:


Which brought you a video of paint drying:


The yellow was:

And this link:

Finally, the green was:

Which was the ringer—click that link and it brought you to the bing v. Google “blind test”:


Well—A for effort.

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