Gertrude imagines that Bing stands for bing is not google; another one of those clever recursive acronyms in the IT world where one thing is trying not to be another thing. Gertrude was excited about Cuil when it came out - supposed to be the biggest search engine a while ago. Does anybody use it, she wonders. Stephen Wolfram's got everyone talking about the new mathematical computational engine and some worrying about how much to trust the data. Anyone know Worio, a discovery engine? And there's even dogpile. Nothing derogatory. It is a collection all the most famous search engines put together.
There's all sorts of search utilities - Gertrude herself knows of the existence of image matching tools and media search tools. She is in silent awe of those awkward algorithms, locked inside a tiny chip somewhere chugging away like elves and trying to find your baby picture from a massive cupboard and even match the tune playing in your head. Personally, Gertrude wishes there were more fun tools like wordsmith and word waldo.
Back to the new thing. Bing. If this decision engine of Microsoft turns out as earth-shattering, Gertrude will mentally prepare herself to use sentences like: I've spent hours googling binging Or something like I have forgotton the lyrics of the song Top of the World, so I am going to have to google bing it for you.
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