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December 07, 2009

Google: A Day Which Will Live In Obscurity
— Ace

Something small, but compare Bing vs. Google as far as recognizing Dec. 7. (Scroll down to see Bing's treatment; the top of the page as displayed is blank, here.)

Virgina Postrel observed something along the lines of: Given technology's increasing power, there will be fewer and fewer differences between one bit of tech and another; they'll all be able to do it all, pretty much. So the only defining difference will be something not techy in the least -- aesthetics.

Well, I'm liking Bing's judgment and class today, and despising Google's.

Thanks to Dave in Texas.

Posted by: Ace at 10:27 AM | Comments (119)
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1 Hey, hey... December 7th is evil, and Google is all about 'Don't be evil' so why would they want to remember it?

You're just a racist hatemonger on the wrong side of HERstory.

Posted by: Tom in Korea at December 07, 2009 10:29 AM (+gX1+)

2 The attack on Pearl Harbor was before I hit the reset button. It's of no relevance today.

Posted by: Unprecedented Obama at December 07, 2009 10:29 AM (xxgag)

3 Who uses Google anymore?

Posted by: Vic at December 07, 2009 10:29 AM (CDUiN)

4 finally motivated enough to choose bing as my new default browser.

Posted by: Ben at December 07, 2009 10:29 AM (wuv1c)

Great title!

Posted by: 801 at December 07, 2009 10:30 AM (Efq1G)

6 Check out Google.jp.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 07, 2009 10:31 AM (NtiET)

7 I just set Bing as my homepage, and deleted the Google toolbar

Posted by: beedubya at December 07, 2009 10:34 AM (AnTyA)

8 I use clusty. google is for chumps.

Posted by: sandy burger at December 07, 2009 10:34 AM (MT+0i)

9 Bing has pretty consistently been on the right side of this issue.

Posted by: apotheosis at December 07, 2009 10:35 AM (xWk3U)

10 Because it's real important to defend the right of non-Western nations to create their own empires...or something like that.

Google wants to be a child of the world. The problem is, the only true "citizens of the world" are a relatively small number of educated elites. Every one else cares more for their own people or country than the world. Period.

Either that, or they just don't like America. Well, I got my own problems with her, but I'm not in a position of moral leadership like Google. Screw 'em.

Posted by: Horatius at December 07, 2009 10:35 AM (evMRo)

It's funny, when American goes to war in Iraq, it was all about oil and therefore evil.

When Japan bombs Pearl Harbor because of oil, it's meh, no biggie.

Posted by: Ben at December 07, 2009 10:36 AM (wuv1c)

12 I applaud Google. Hawaii, with her short skirts and high grade marijuana, was asking for it. Hawaii is, and was, a dirty whore.

Posted by: Hirohito Jr. at December 07, 2009 10:37 AM (mGSN1)

13 I like the cut of Bing's jib.

Posted by: dananjcon at December 07, 2009 10:38 AM (pr+up)

14 Pearl Harbor...never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie G. at December 07, 2009 10:39 AM (pr+up)

I had previously complained that the Bing search box on the MSN toolbar didn't finish my words for me. This was a big deal for me because my spelling needs the assistance.

Got a newer version of the MSN Toolbar and now Bing finishes my words for me. Still haven't searched enough with it to have much of an opinion.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 07, 2009 10:39 AM (Be4xl)

16 I gotta defend Google. Dec 7th has absolutely nothing to do with Sesame Street.

Posted by: Dr Carlo Lombardi at December 07, 2009 10:40 AM (tW0ND)

I get the Canadian versions of both

Can someone put up a picture of what I'm missing? Bing has a picture of some beach hotel & google.ca has nothing at all.

Posted by: 5Cats at December 07, 2009 10:40 AM (O5yP8)

18 I just bought a new HP computer with Windows 7. Bing is the default search engine so now I have an excuse to never use that left-wing POS Google again. So far I am enjoying Bing.

Posted by: rockmom at December 07, 2009 10:40 AM (w/gVZ)

19 Bing does not work as well for me.

I'll try going back to Yahoo as a compromise.

I *did* do the following searches in Google:
"google unamerican" and "google ignores D-day"
and got quite a few hits.

Posted by: Y-not at December 07, 2009 10:41 AM (sey23)

20 If Pearl Harbor happened under the Obama administration, would the NY Times report it?

Posted by: wHodat at December 07, 2009 10:41 AM (+sBB4)

21 Well, we need to be (minimally) thankful that Google *did* manage to recognize Veterans Day 2009.

Posted by: RB at December 07, 2009 10:41 AM (DHDwY)

22 As much as I have loved Google Tech (Search, Maps, Earth) I am sick of their agenda. Microsoft is not much better, but today they showed me enough promise to change my default search provider to Bing.

Posted by: California Red at December 07, 2009 10:41 AM (7uWb8)

23 I'm surprised Google didn't depict a same-sex couple getting married on the pier.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at December 07, 2009 10:42 AM (2QFX4)

24 Can someone put up a picture of what I'm missing? Bing has a picture of some beach hotel & google.ca has nothing at all.

Bing's picture is of the Pearl Harbor memorial, not just some beach.

Posted by: Y-not at December 07, 2009 10:42 AM (sey23)

25 Google CEO Eric Schmidt declares the end of privacy.

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Gawker: http://is.gd/5fdfX

Posted by: WTFCI at December 07, 2009 10:43 AM (GtYrq)

24 Bing's picture is of the Pearl Harbor memorial, not just some beach. - Y-not

Ah! I was hoping that was what it was. Didn't really explain it on the site.

Thanks!

Posted by: 5Cats at December 07, 2009 10:45 AM (O5yP8)

24 Bing's picture is of the Pearl Harbor memorial, not just some beach. - Y-not

Ah! I was hoping that was what it was. Didn't really explain it on the site.

Thanks!

yeah that little white thing you see in the harbor is a memorial which is above the USS Arizona which they left at the bottom on the harbor as a reminder.

Posted by: Ben at December 07, 2009 10:46 AM (wuv1c)

28
Anyone who refuses to use gooogle is an opponent of civil rights.

Posted by: a.k.a. Harry Reid at December 07, 2009 10:47 AM (6zk5L)

It's one thing to call out Google for their biases, it's another thing to turn the cheek and continue using them. Why do that?

There are a lot of alternatives out there, I try to avoid Google as much as possible. You should do the same.

Sorry, I'm getting beyond willingness to joke about these chumps. Pearl Harbor happened a long time ago, but it will always be tragic and a defining moment in our history. It's not pop culture that gets cast aside with age.

Posted by: Scruffy McGee at December 07, 2009 10:47 AM (LI1g/)

30 What is this, did Fatty McK-Lo get a fucking guest spot on Ace? Who gives a shit what Google's logo is, and why? They're a search engine and software company, not an advocacy group, and what they do or do not randomly choose to create special logos for has no bearing on anything. Are you really going to go use Bing because Microsoft made the straight up marketing decision to pimp the dead bodies of US soldiers to appeal to you? Would that make their search better? Did Hotmail all of the sudden become really badass b/c MS has a "Remember Pearl Harbor" bumper sticker?

Posted by: DMXRoid at December 07, 2009 10:47 AM (vd872)

31 Count me as an evil liberal (yeah right), but until bing manages to work without requiring me to takes its stupid (*&%$*cookies to review images, it will remain inferior.

Just because something is more aligned ideologically doesn't mean it produces a better product.

Posted by: moron # 34561156 at December 07, 2009 10:47 AM (p1s9n)

32 Google's busy working on the celebratory graphics for Copenhagen to bother with...well....whatever happened today.

Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny at December 07, 2009 10:48 AM (KWhJd)

33 I remember when Charles Johnson at LGF used to ridicule Google's bias of honoring obscure "international" occasions at the expense of more "American" ones. Wonder if he still does that...

Posted by: Pyrocles at December 07, 2009 10:48 AM (xzSvW)

34

O/T - God love Sarah Palin, but what the F is up with the damn MAO hat?

Posted by: moron # 2436131 at December 07, 2009 10:49 AM (p1s9n)

35 I would'nt have even remembered to check Google, had it not been for this thread.

Posted by: DngrMse at December 07, 2009 10:50 AM (LWPer)

36 They did the same thing with 9/11 this year. Bing had a nice tribute...Google nothing.

Posted by: brak at December 07, 2009 10:50 AM (W5NBA)

I am sitting here in my office at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba at 1440 hrs. The Command Master Chief of the Joint Detention Group knocked on my door and asked if the American flag flying outside my office was mine and could he please drop it to half staff. I knew today was Pearl Harbor day and completely forgot to render the proper honors in front of my own office. Dont I fell like the moron.

I gave the CMC my thanks and we lowered the flag for the rest of the day. Rest in Peace Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coasties from that day.

Posted by: MAJHAM@GTMO at December 07, 2009 10:51 AM (qXVP6)

38 Is there any way possible to take the google search off of the toolbar on a mac?

Posted by: 2012cannotcomesoonenough at December 07, 2009 10:51 AM (Q+G+u)

They did the same thing with 9/11 this year. Bing had a nice tribute...Google nothing.

That's cause google was involved with the missle that hit the pentagon.

Posted by: Ben at December 07, 2009 10:52 AM (wuv1c)

Further to my previous post:

On the Canadian Bing page there's a hotel, but there's a link to the USA homepage which has an ariel view of Pearl Harbour.

I take it the Google USA page has nothing, same as the Canadian page?

Posted by: 5Cats at December 07, 2009 10:52 AM (O5yP8)

God love Sarah Palin, but what the F is up with the damn MAO hat?

It's a Mao hat of +5 to hawtness.

Posted by: EC at December 07, 2009 10:54 AM (mAhn3)

I take it the Google USA page has nothing, same as the Canadian page?

You got it.

Posted by: EC at December 07, 2009 10:55 AM (mAhn3)

43 Microsoft is smart enough to exploit Google's sneering bullshit.

I love big successful innovative companies, and I love capitalism, and MS doesn't represent either very well. But compared to google I think MS actually comes out ahead.

Too bad they simply are inferior when it comes to search technology.

Posted by: The Nobel Peace Prize Committee (NPPC) at December 07, 2009 10:55 AM (uLHPW)

44 It's not a Mao hat anymore. It's a 'Cuda hat.

Posted by: grognard at December 07, 2009 10:55 AM (v0kvW)

45 It's not like its Halloween or something important, like chill dude.

Posted by: Al Franken at December 07, 2009 10:56 AM (2+9Yx)

yeah that little white thing you see in the harbor is a memorial which is above the USS Arizona which they left at the bottom on the harbor as a reminder.

Reminder? It's a tomb.

Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at December 07, 2009 10:58 AM (outBY)

47 What the heck are you guys searching for? what is the string? "a day that will live in infamy" and "december 7th" both return similar sets for me? Not that I don't already dislike google!!!

Posted by: Rob in Katy at December 07, 2009 10:58 AM (8x6Zf)

Bing's been my choice for about six months. I really like the little doodad on the side that shows a little more of the sight you're hovering over.

And it's really nice when an American company that owes is success to the freedom we take for granted, shows it occasionally.

Try something like that in China.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 07, 2009 10:59 AM (ZGhSv)

49 It's one thing to call out Google for their biases, it's another thing to turn the cheek and continue using them. Why do that? Posted by: Scruffy McGee at December 07, 2009 02:47 PM (LI1g/) I don't worry about the politics of my servants, so long as they do their work. The "climategate" cover-up attempt was a perfect case of their politics interfering with their search-engine, but as much as 7 Dec. is an important date, I don't care if google chooses to honour it or not.

Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at December 07, 2009 11:00 AM (9nNhO)

50 Its the home page itself Rob. Look at Google then look at Bing. Big difference.

Posted by: MAJHAM@GTMO at December 07, 2009 11:01 AM (qXVP6)

51 http://www.scroogle.org/

Posted by: sporadic small arms fire at December 07, 2009 11:01 AM (dP6Ky)

With the exception of SketchUp and Google Earth Pro, which I need for my architectural work, I will not permit anything Google near my computers.

I am becoming more and more comfortable with Bing and it is getting great reviews from people very familiar with search engines.

I also hear that Bing Maps is replacing Google maps and their street views are second to none - God I hope and pray someone can slap down that liberal Google.

Posted by: rookwood at December 07, 2009 11:01 AM (cOXVZ)

53
pimp the dead bodies of US soldiers to appeal to you?

No, and I don't see it that way. It's about honoring people who died and never forgetting them.

btw, what are you, a spammer?

Posted by: a.k.a. at December 07, 2009 11:04 AM (6zk5L)

54 Bing has greatly improved its search capabilites and I'm glad to use it most of the time, rather than rely on gloogle....

Posted by: The Only Broad West of Denver Tiger Hasn't Boinked at December 07, 2009 11:07 AM (8g9qq)

55 Wonder if Google will commemorate Jim Morrison's birth and John Lennon's death tomorrow? Well, why the hell not... there wasn't anything more important going on in early December.

Posted by: AngelEm at December 07, 2009 11:07 AM (HCxZ0)

56 I think the only American holiday Google recognizes is Earth Day, and now maybe Teh One's Birthday (if they ever find his birth certificate).

Posted by: Iblis at December 07, 2009 11:07 AM (9221z)

57 @10 Horatius:

The issue with the "Death to Nationalism!" idea the left has embraced so wholeheartedly, is that humans are inherently tribal. We find something to group together over.

The entire meaning of supporting your country over your party is inherently nationalist. And they've renounced that. This is nearly-intentional Balkanization at every freaking level.

But this is precisely the area of most difficulty in making stable democracies in the first place: subsuming family, clan, and tribal loyalties somewhat to ensure at least some interest in the continuance of the nation as a whole.

Posted by: Al at December 07, 2009 11:10 AM (0lyUI)

58 Just switched over to Bing as well.

Posted by: skye at December 07, 2009 11:14 AM (HwMXR)

#26

The picture on Bing is the Arizona memorial, that stands over the sunken battleship, next to it is the Battleship Missouri, where the bastard Japs surrendered.

How fucking cool is that?

Want to know, go and watch the Jap tourist look at it. You started it with the Arizona, we finished with the Missouri!!

Suck the barbed cock of Satan!

Posted by: Kemp at December 07, 2009 11:15 AM (2+9Yx)

60 Bing has been my homepage since 9/11. It's not so much that Google doesn't recognize these things; it's that the powers that be recognzie everything else (Mary Cassatt's birthday, Michael Jackson's death, Sesame Street).

Posted by: niclun at December 07, 2009 11:18 AM (wJoL5)

I've used Yahoo for search for as long as I can remember.

Google is run by a bunch of left wing scumbags who had no problem doing the Chinese government's bidding in censoring search results in order to get a foothold into that market -- not that it worked out for them anyway. (Bidu anyone?)

"Do no evil" my ass.

Posted by: Warden at December 07, 2009 11:21 AM (QoR4a)

The O has his day of ambiguity with his surgerender.

The seals get their day of reckoning for their fat lip episode.These politicians and officers who act like them haven't a clue on how difficult it is to catch live prisoners.

The terrorists get their day in court, just a few blocks from their handiwork. Holder should mirandize them personally.

What a day?

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 11:23 AM (2n5cq)

63 Google "Eric Schmidt" + "ass licking" don't be evil....just do it

Posted by: torabora at December 07, 2009 11:25 AM (/hpsh)

64 Switched to Bing some time ago. It has improved and is improving.

It's actually work to avoid Google now. Some default application installs want to add on the Google toolbar, too. If I'm forced to use it, that software gets dumped.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 07, 2009 11:26 AM (50S+L)

65 Pearl Harbor?
Never heard of it.

Posted by: Generations X,Y and 52% at December 07, 2009 11:34 AM (tW0ND)

66 Is that a Palin Steele sighting at #30?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at December 07, 2009 11:36 AM (mGSN1)

67 I'd rather my search engine be sterile of any political implications. Maybe I'm in a minority.

Posted by: P Mike at December 07, 2009 11:37 AM (kKbZi)

68 Just set Bing as my default home page (Google was my previous default) and played around with it for a bit. Not bad. Hopefully I can replace Google with Bing the same way I did IE with Firefox.

Posted by: Bust of Churchill at December 07, 2009 11:40 AM (8/DeP)

69 Not one thing on NPR this morning about Pearl Harbor...the rewriting of history? Plenty about Carbonhagen, the next attack on the US...

Posted by: Mudshark at December 07, 2009 11:41 AM (11AAY)

70 They're a search engine and software company, not an advocacy group...

Which of course is why Google political donation run about 100:1 biased towards democrats, right?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 07, 2009 11:43 AM (HadCt)

71 I simply fail to see any "political implications" by honoring those that died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Look at the things the DO celebrate and tell me how the attack on Pearl Harbor is any less important than, say, the invention of the barcode. It's there, look it up.

http://tinyurl.com/czsk3a

And for the guy that's still doing architectural work in this economy, Godspeed, my friend. I've been out of a job for almost 2 years.

Posted by: rktkt at December 07, 2009 11:47 AM (Sv9VC)

72 After Google pulled this crap on 9-11. I canned them and started using Bing as did the rest of my office.

Posted by: Say What? at December 07, 2009 11:49 AM (vwh8M)

73 37 MAJHAM@GTMO
Sir, thank you for your service, and thanks much for remembering us Coasties...

Posted by: Mudshark at December 07, 2009 12:00 PM (11AAY)

74 I may have to put my money on this and lay in a bear spread on GOOG. Going two years out, this MS/Yahoo alliance could knock Google down a peg or two. I'm not sure their public image matches the internal reality right now.

One of my ultra-liberal moonbat friends works for Google. Called me up the other day bitching about how stifling the internal bureaucracy was and how hard it was to get anything done...internal paralysis, etc, etc, and how he wanted out desperately...and he's only been there a year or so.

This isn't some idealistic/unrealistic neophyte young turk codeslinger either. This is a methodical, exceptionally competent, very well educated older guy who has been around bureaucracies before and knows how to work within them. I don't think he expected Google to be as internally encrusted and internally political as it is when he hired on.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 07, 2009 12:01 PM (HadCt)

I've been using Bing for a while now, and I like it just fine.

Before he went insane, LGF used to note year by year that Google refused to recognize Memorial Day, but was all about the Persian New Year.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 07, 2009 12:01 PM (eNxMU)

76 I switched to Bing several months ago. I noticed that Goggle's very bad about completely ignoring all things that would be patriotic or special to America, especially if it means ignoring a big American happening for some obscure international crap. Bing always has something relevant to the day and I've yet to come across any day that is specifically important to America that Bing has ignored.

Posted by: Mandy P. at December 07, 2009 12:07 PM (MK6Kx)

I also hear that Bing Maps is replacing Google maps and their street views are second to none - God I hope and pray someone can slap down that liberal Google.

I switched when I found the Google Earth pics of the Shreveport area were from 2002. I was trying to find a house long distance and there were whole neighborhoods that just weren't there. Really not helpful.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 07, 2009 12:11 PM (Be4xl)

78 Bing is my new homepage--it works just fine.

Posted by: nikkolai at December 07, 2009 12:16 PM (qbOft)

79 @75 - No mention of it there today. Wow, go figure.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 07, 2009 12:17 PM (zgZzy)

Visit the Arizona Memorial. Its a tomb and its treated with the utmost respect,which it should. I was lucky enough to see a family,with permission granted,pour ashes on the sight.Pretty awesome. Leis and flowers all over the place. Fantastic.

Spent 6 hours on the Missouri. Sat in Halsey's chair in Command 1. The place is a bank vault, encased in 2 feet of hardened steel. Saw the planning area where Nimitz did his handiwork. MacArthur had his bedroom-really cool. I was prepped for the tour because i had read the magnificent book on the USS Washington,an upgrade on the Arizona, having 16 inch guns instead of 15,and a girth just being able to squeeze in the locks of Panama. The Washington had been built on the East coast. I practically took over as tour guide and the real tour guide had me answering the ordanance questions. God bless you Ching Lee.

God bless all you American sailors and soldiers who won the War of the Pacific!

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 12:17 PM (2n5cq)

MS as an alternative to 'left wing Google' is like watching CNN because it's more balanced then MSNBC.

Posted by: Entropy at December 07, 2009 12:18 PM (IsLT6)

82 I've been slowing switching to Bing, in no small part due to Google's politics (search and otherwise).

Kind of weird having Microsoft actually getting something right, or at least better than Goggle.

Posted by: drfredc at December 07, 2009 12:29 PM (ljMiA)

Posted by: Flavius Julius at December 07, 2009 12:31 PM (kKP5O)

84 The AoS Imams seem to have blocked links. Hot Air is even more open. How Anal Retentive do you get?

Posted by: Flavius Julius at December 07, 2009 12:33 PM (kKP5O)

85 Where does firefox fit in this political garbage?

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 12:33 PM (2n5cq)

86 You can't use Bing as default on Firefox.

Posted by: Flavius Julius at December 07, 2009 12:35 PM (kKP5O)

87 Switched to Bing several weeks ago as my homepage and haven't looked back. I liked Google because it was a mostly blank page that loaded quickly, but I find I like the changing daily picture at Bing, and the ghostly little square explantaion links that appear when you hover your cursor over the pictures. The stench of GoogleCorp's left wing positions finally became too much for me. Now I tell people to "Bing it."

Posted by: JudgeNarragansett at December 07, 2009 12:37 PM (IuoH/)

88 @86

Yes you can. There's an add-in for it.

Posted by: Gran at December 07, 2009 12:41 PM (xmjMj)

89 THX. I'll check it out.

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 12:45 PM (2n5cq)

90 I wouldn't just call out Google on it. For some reason no mention from any of my other normal engines... not on dogpile, yahoo, or ask either

Posted by: Schlippy at December 07, 2009 12:47 PM (xm1A1)

91 Like others here, I just shit-canned Google as my default search engine in Firefox and replaced it with Bing. Need to do the same thing on my home computers.

Posted by: bound4er at December 07, 2009 12:48 PM (RjUC6)

92 Google sucks for covering up climategate.

You can bitch about it here:

http://tinyurl.com/yhvgjlp

Posted by: Sped at December 07, 2009 12:48 PM (sAfmL)

93 Apparently Cuil, neither, though they've never put anything up but their black screen so meh.

I wonder the underlying reason (perhaps they fear the Japanese will look poorly on it being brought up, and Google is pretty international afterall).

This is a 'meh' for me if it weren't for Google's CEOs odd comments earlier. I use meta engines normally and then go elsewhere based on if I'm getting enough results. Don't much care about the politics.

Posted by: Schlippy at December 07, 2009 12:51 PM (xm1A1)

94 I showed my wife bing a few weeks back and its all she uses... If she can use and likes it... Google is gone.

Posted by: Indian Outlaw at December 07, 2009 12:53 PM (7NcLZ)

95 International Date Line aside, I wonder what the Nipponese are saying about this infamous day.

Posted by: Tommy Gunn at December 07, 2009 12:54 PM (rQTdM)

96 In Firefox, click the dropdown on your search box, "Manage Search Engines...", then "Get more search engines..." at the bottom, look for the Bing addon. This will make Bing the default. I like it myself, very snappy and good in-line previews.

Posted by: Steve H at December 07, 2009 12:55 PM (XHOAD)

I wouldn't just call out Google on it. For some reason no mention from any of my other normal engines... not on dogpile, yahoo, or ask either

I don't know that the other companies made a point of saying "look how cool and funny we are for making changes for holidays!!"

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 07, 2009 12:57 PM (Be4xl)

98 86, you can go to bing.com, there's a link on the top right, click it. You'll magically replace that commie search engine that fast.

Posted by: ddiddly at December 07, 2009 01:07 PM (JXF5g)

99 33 I remember when Charles Johnson at LGF used to ridicule Google's bias of honoring obscure "international" occasions at the expense of more "American" ones. Wonder if he still does that.

Google honored the American "ride your bike to work day", so put that in your racist pipe and smoke it

Posted by: Cahrsel Jhonsno at December 07, 2009 01:22 PM (sYxEE)

100 I'm stuck with Gmail for the present because I don't know of an email provider that does the things that Gmail does... with the tagging and the conversation tracking.

But I've switched my primary search engine to Bing.

Posted by: Mary Beth at December 07, 2009 01:23 PM (JPEqm)

101 This kind of crap is why I switched to Bing as my default as soon as Bing became available.

Posted by: VA Voter at December 07, 2009 01:47 PM (U3OD/)

102 Damn, Heather. Neither December 7 nor December 8 has any significant meaning in the world of Popeye.

Posted by: steveegg at December 07, 2009 02:03 PM (UGOcx)

103

I was going to sockpuppet a Google hack defending this, but I just can't do it.

Posted by: steveegg at December 07, 2009 02:05 PM (UGOcx)

104 Bing. Done. Hey,this is really classy and snazzy. Merci beaucoups.

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 02:13 PM (2n5cq)

105 Google never commemorates the days it should. I stopped eating Cheerios and buying clothes from major department stores for the same reason. If they don't all remember this day, they don't deserve my business. Also removed Drudge as my homepage.

Posted by: Your Mom at December 07, 2009 02:20 PM (GjXkv)

106 I've switched to Bing; the Climategate BS at Googleconvinced me. But before we fall in love with Bing, let's remember that Microsoft literally put the "MS" in MSNBC. I predict Bing will "grow" Left as it becomes more popular.

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 07, 2009 02:31 PM (QECjC)

107 @80
I first visited Hawaii under orders aboard the USCGC Munro. We pulled into Pearl Harbor and passed the USS Arizona rendering full maritime honors...wasn't a dry eye.

Several years after that my Father and I visited the USS Arizona Memorial and there were a couple of adolescent dipshits grab assing and carrying on...the Park Ranger bellowed out this was a tomb, a hallowed site and all respect will be rendered.
That Park Ranger received many thanks that day.

Posted by: Mudshark at December 07, 2009 02:44 PM (11AAY)

108 I'm not going to shitcan Drudge. He's the one who hung out Lewinski's dress to dry.

Posted by: chicocano at December 07, 2009 02:47 PM (2n5cq)

109 Isn't Eric a WH insider? Always wondered how Google makes money. It certainly isn't from the ads. Do they sell information about the people who use them?

Posted by: curious at December 07, 2009 02:50 PM (p302b)

110 To hell with Google.

Posted by: FrankReality at December 07, 2009 05:51 PM (t5/IN)

111 Same thing happened on D-Day. Bing had Normandy Beach, Google had the birthday of Tetris.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 07, 2009 06:38 PM (AfPnb)

112 100 I'm stuck with Gmail for the present because I don't know of an email provider that does the things that Gmail does...

If you're a Gmail user and have questions about Gmail feature availability in other email services, put the question into a personal email to a friend and Google will get back to you within 24 hours.

Posted by: gjz at December 07, 2009 07:11 PM (GdqSP)

113 Several posters have wondered about the Japanese version of things. From my computer in Nagoya, Bing and Google open up to the Japanese versions. Bing (Japan) has a photo of some ancient architecture, interior columns in a stone room of some sort. Clicking on 'Go to Bing in English' brings up the Arizona Memorial photo. It's very tastefully done, with a solemn tone. Google (Japan) has a graphic of Popeye punching a can of spinach with a roundhouse swing. Not sure what that means. Clicking on 'Google.com in English' brings up the image-less Google page. As far as general media, I saw no mention of Pearl Harbor in print or TV, but I don't watch much TV. The news programs I heard during dinner yesterday said nothing on it. The Anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb is a national event, of course. I'd also be interested in a procedure to switch out the Google search slot carried by default in Safari (Mac) to Bing, if there is one available. Best regards, Peter Warner. Nagoya, Japan Best regards, Peter Warner.

Posted by: Peter Warner at December 07, 2009 08:05 PM (JRnGT)

114 Well google.com has switched to popeye too, with the attendant note that its the creators birthday

Posted by: HowardDevore at December 07, 2009 08:34 PM (yxfok)

115 If you look at Google's logo for Dec. 8, I'm not sure exactly what to think.

Definitely not Pearl Harbor-related. But the guy was the official symbol of the U.S. Navy's fighter squadron during the war.

Posted by: John at December 07, 2009 08:36 PM (/lWMb)

116 The idea is very good.

Posted by: Laptop-battery at December 07, 2009 09:36 PM (6TMLu)

117 114 Well google.com has switched to popeye too, with the attendant note that its the creators birthday

Popeye would go medieval on the Google CEO's ass for dissing Pearl Harbor Day, in light of the fellow sailors lost on that day. Popeye was a Red, White, and Blue killing machine for the Allies.

Posted by: kbdabear at December 08, 2009 12:40 AM (sYxEE)

118 Flavius Julius: "You can't use Bing as default on Firefox."

Well there's the default search engine toolbar switch, and then there's tweaking the guts:

1) In the Address URL, type about:Config
2) In the Filter: keyword area, type keyword.URL
3) Right-click the keyword.URL line
4) From the drop-down menu, select Modify
5) Replace default URL with
http://www.bing.com/search?
sourceid=Mozilla-search&
form=CHROME&q=
(That's all on one line with NO breaks or spaces. Damn you lacewigs and Pixy!)
6) Select OK

Congratulations. You've now made your default search from the GUI utilize Bing.

Need Google back? Re-edit the keyword.URL to
http://www.google.com/search?
ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&
sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
(That's all on one line with NO breaks or spaces. Damn you lacewigs and Pixy!)

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 08, 2009 02:25 AM (50S+L)

119 Google isn't that liberal; after all, they are effectively cornering the market on search, have already garnered 90% of the search advertising, have the most popular mapping program, and are entering the former territories of their former allies (e.g. Android invades iPhone turf), etc. What Google represents is uber capitalism, where capitalism is applied to liberal ideals, instead of liberal ideals relying on socialism or communism. Think about that. Whereas in the past capitalism has been used to further conservative agendas, Google is using capitalism to further liberal agendas. Of course, Google is _not_ the first company to do this; that trail has been blazed by many many other companies, but none of those other companies has had the market presence and market dominance that Google has now. God help us in the next 10 years.

Posted by: wonkette at December 30, 2009 05:59 PM (Dy8Ok)

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