Bing 2.0: “Super Imressive!”
by John Paczkowski
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 2:08 PM PT
Twitter has already had repercussions in the courtroom. Now it has had them at Microsoft’s annual company meeting as well. Employee tweets from the gathering Thursday revealed that we may see a major update to the company’s Bing search engine as early as next week.
“Saw the demo of Bing 2.0, super imressive! Watch out its release next week,” said one catalogued by All About Microsoft’s Mary Jo Foley Yes, “impressive” is not spelled correctly in the tweet–maybe someone needs to Google (GOOG) a dictionary stat!
“BING 2.0 terrific,” enthused another.
“Watch out guys ! bing + silverlight in maps = amazing !! goodbye google.”
And another: “Bing 2.0’s upcoming search visualization is pretty sexy…”
Finally, my favorite: “wondering if the Bing team really wanted everyone at the company meeting to announce on twitter when Bing 2.0 is going to be released?”
Evidently not. Reached for comment, Microsoft (MSFT) had only this to say: “We’re very excited about some of the new Bing features set to roll out over the next few months, but have nothing to announce today.”
But perhaps next week.
Comments
OMG I can’t wait. I’m going to put off all my Internet searches until this new Bing launches!
Not.
Posted by Fred Hamranhansenhansen at September 11th, 2009 at 5:08 pmObviously Ballmer doesn’t control his people’s loose lips like Jobs does.
Maybe he should throw some chairs at them, or, better yet, stomp on their iPhones.
Posted by Mac Beach at September 11th, 2009 at 5:41 pm