Where do you Google? (Bing, Yahoo, Ask….)

There’s an old joke in the south that goes something like this:

A guy walks up to the counter and asks for a Coke. The kid behind the counter says, “Sure, Mister. What kind of Coke would you like? We have Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi…”

Just like “Coke” has become a household name synonymous with “soda,” or “cola,” so has the name “Google” become a synonym for “online search,” as is satirically illustrated in this College Humor Video, Googling with Bing: The easiest way to Google since Yahoo!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

So, why am I bringing this up now? Well, Bing.com is the new search engine that wants to eclipse Google. It’s run by Microsoft. So far, we’re getting almost 10% of our our search engine traffic from Bing.com right now (compared to just a little over 10% from Yahoo, and nearly 80% from Google). That’s pretty good for a search engine that is so new. Naturally, there are a lot of questions – Ian Paul, of PC World addresses a few in his post from May, 5 Things I Want to Know about Bing (So far the answers to the questions are “yes” to the first four, and “?” to the 5th).

For now, if you want to compare Bing with Google, try Bingle, a nifty little site that shows a side-by-side comparison of the search results on both sites. Example below. (Note, the web address is not what you’d expect: http://bingle.pwnij.com).

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