Bing Reality Log

Bing search -- much like MSN and Live -- relied on PR, especially upon arrival. News sites were even sponsored to promote it (market budget estimated at $100 million) and the engine was tweaked such that it discriminates against Microsoft's competition.

Bing failed to gain traction and here is chronological, incomplete coverage of the subject.

2009

 * Name it “Bing” or “Kumo” or “Live” or “MSN”, But it is Dead on Arrival
 * New Speculations About Microsoft Buying Citrix or Grabbing Yahoo! Search
 * With Vista 7 Already Disappointing, Is There a Future for Microsoft?
 * Bingeing with Microsoft and Ruining the Environment
 * Yahoo! and Microsoft Still Search for a Future!
 * Reader’s Article: Bing Against Google
 * Is This Bing or is it Bong?
 * Microsoft’s Search Engine Already Banned by Websense and by China
 * “Decisions Engine” Means Microsoft Decides What You Should Think
 * Does Microsoft Break the Law in Search of a Future?
 * From Live Search to Dead Search (aka “Bing”)
 * Microsoft Pays Company Which Recommends Bing Over Google
 * Search Engine News: Google Is Not…
 * Bing Fails, So Microsoft Proceeds to Anti-competitive Practices
 * $100,000,000 in Marketing (Imposed Ignorance) Bought Microsoft Nothing in Search
 * Microsoft Web Search and Web Browser Shunned
 * If Google Renamed, It Would Gain Another 80% Market Share
 * Microsoft Search and Other Rogue Web Sites
 * Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Not a Done Deal, But Microsoft Proceeds to Other Deals as Search Ambitions Fail
 * Microsoft’s Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net Applications Lies Again
 * Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder
 * Microsoft Search Dives 28%. Time to Call it Quits?
 * Latest Dead Products, Delays, and Descends at Microsoft
 * No Point to Microsoft’s New Datacentres, Microsoft-dominated VMware Comes to Redmond’s Back Garden
 * Search is Still Slipping Through Microsoft’s Fingers
 * Microsoft’s Use of Bribes for Search, Only 4% of Microsoft/Razorfish Clients Used Microsoft Search
 * Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft
 * Why Microsoft’s Murdoch Tactic is Similar to SCO
 * Microsoft About Anti-Google “Bribes”: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
 * LSE Dumped Windows for GNU/Linux; Microsoft Should Do the Same (Bing Crashes)
 * Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux
 * “Boycott Bing” Revisited, Google Makes It Obsolete Anyway

2010

 * Microsoft Implicitly Acknowledges Failure in Consoles, Search, and Mobile
 * Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google
 * Microsoft Search is Down in Its Home Country
 * Lies and Denial of Service Attacks from Microsoft Bing
 * Microsoft Lost Over $5,000,000,000 Trying to Dethrone Google (in Vain)
 * Numbers That Microsoft Cannot Let You See (A sobering look at how Microsoft is declining in most areas, including search/online business)
 * comScore is Microsoft is comScore is Deceiving (and How Microsoft Controls Minds)
 * Microsoft Bing in the Business of Deceit, Censorship, and Brainwash
 * Microsoft Loses Market Share in Search, Exploits Yahoo! Some More, Exploits Linux/Android Phones, and Harvests Many People’s Data
 * Microsoft Finds Out That Bribing Doesn’t Work in the Long Term, Neither Against Google Nor GNU/Linux
 * Yahoo! Search Personnel Fired, Microsoft’s Bong (sic) Sued for Patent Violations
 * comScore — Paid by Microsoft — Finally Admits Its Figures Are Bogus, Gamed
 * Microsoft Shoves Bing Toolbar Down People’s Throats Using Windows Update, Cheats Search Engine Meters
 * Microsoft Has an Internet Problem, Relies on Lies
 * Microsoft Still Loses Billions of Dollars Online
 * Microsoft and Yahoo! Continue to Lose to Google, Microsoft Resorts to Regulators to Complain About “Monopoly”
 * Microsoft Can’t Afford to Buy Search Market Share Anymore, Kills What’s Left of Yahoo!

2011

 * Microsoft Alleged to Have Tricked People Into Switching to Bing, Using a Rogue Site
 * Microsoft is Just a Skin
 * Microsoft’s Bing Executives Continue to Flee While Their Company Admits Scraping Results From Google

2013

 * Microsoft’s Search Efforts Descend Into Obscurity