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Microsoft is terrible at naming things. I blame most of Bing's failure on the name, not the actual product itself.


What makes "Google" a better name than "Bing", if you ignore the success now associated with it?


I didn't say Google was a better name but here goes.

Bing is physically difficult to speak. And as every fourth grader who has taken math knows, Google actually means something. Bing doesn't mean anything; it doesn't even evoke any thought or emotion.


"Google" doesn't mean anything outside the name of the company and the services it provides.

"Googol" is the mathematical term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol


At least they didn't name it "Microsoft Live Search, Internet Edition 2010"


It's doing better as Bing than it was under either of its old names.


Yeah, "Bing" is the sound a microwave makes after you've been waiting for a minute.




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