Luke Hubbard

Bing has made a ridiculous, melodramatic commercial in Spanish named “Los Links Episode Uno.” This is apparently their attempt to go viral on Youtube. I don’t think it’s working since I see less than 20,000 views at this point. I do think it’s pretty funny but needs better comedic actors to make it really pop. The end of the commercial promises a follow-up with “to be continued.”

This is the type of commercial that could get really annoying if it played continuously on network television…. and secretly I’m anxiously waiting for “episode dos.”

-Luke Hubbard

Bing’s Official YouTube Channel

Bing.com went down for 30 minutes and displayed an error today according to my favorite blog Mashable.com. It wasn’t a huge error Microsoft, so don’t worry, you’re still in the runnings to become America’s next top search engine.

To compete with Google News, Bing has a news aggregation page at http://www.bing.com/news. I’m not sold on the layout yet, as the first main listings in the center don’t resonate with me. I’d much rather see several main topics and news stories rather than 2 that Bing thinks are most relevant. However, on the left are major categories like “World,” “US,” and “Local.” On the far right are news listing based on the user’s set location.

Bing News page

Honestly, I don’t think I’ll be revisiting Bing News again to get my daily dose of “What’s going on in the world.” I’ll stick to Google, Yahoo, and CNN.