How “bing” Lost Me.
10.27.2009 | My Blog
I’ve been a long time Google user (and stock holder) but I’d begun to like bing. Sometimes Google can have a little too much junk in the searches and I was having some good luck with searches on bing. There is so much content on the Internet that it can be daunting to find search results that are really relevant and not just somebody selling something. I had high hopes that the competition between bing and Google would seriously improve that.
Well that was until today. While working looking for some information I stumbled across this advertisement. I was very offended, but not for the reasons you might think. You might think I was offended simply because God was listed. Or if you’re politically motivated that God was equated to Oprah and Lance Armstrong. Nope, although that does somewhat offend me.
I’m offended because some knucklehead at bing (or worse Microsoft) thought this was a “cute” advertising technique. Even more that somebody let this slip by. Microsoft (who I am also a stockholder in) has enough problems without inciting the religious establishment in this country. Remember what happened to Disney?
As a Christian, yeah it bugs me that people think Oprah, Lance Armstrong and God are on equal footing when it comes to power, or that God has a Twitter account. God doesn’t need a Twitter account. Not that he doesn’t know everything about technology, who do you think gave us the brains to conceive of this stuff? If you don’t think it was God, then explain to me why we can’t even come close to duplicating the human brain?? But I digress…
Microsoft, and by extension bing, has gotten a black eye for so long on everything from security, to browsers, to corporate greed they don’t need to beg for bad press. I would think that a company who has spent so much money on the Windows 7 launch would have really been sensitive to the timing of such a bad ad going out. But that’s me thinking again.
Oh well, guess this is just another example of Proverbs 1:22. As for me, I’m going back to Google.
2.10.2010
Amen, brother!
Seriously though, I thought the same thing when I saw this ad. I’m a Christian, but I was put-off for the same reason: the really asinine move on account of their marketing department to even think that this was a good idea. And the whole suggesting equality with God by association thing.
Guess that’s why I’m a Mac. :/
Though if God did have a Twitter account, I’m sure He’d tweet something like Isaiah 46:9.