Microsoft hasn’t always released the coolest, most “hip” consumer oriented products. Nor have they even gotten as far as choosing a clever and catchy name that didn’t sound dorky or “pushed too hard”. Lucky for us, they did alright with their search engine Bing, for it was almost “Bang”. Now being the somewhat mentally unstable person that I am, hearing of a search engine named “Bang” has failure written all over it. Take these few light hearted examples:
- Don’t know much about Mrs. Obama? Bang her.
- No idea on the true size of a fully grown female water buffalo? Bang it!
- Need a splendid new apple pie recipe for Easter? Bang it!
Yes, Bing could have been Bang and all hell would have broken lose. Just think of all the money Microsoft would have thrown in the trash if they actually went forward with Bang, only to have to re-educate people once they renamed the search engine so it’s verb could actually be used in church. Good job Microsoft. You avoided the but of our jokes for the day.
