Would You Switch to Bing for $3 to a Good Cause?

[Wolygon]

[citation][nom]arael[/nom]I wouldn't. If I want to donate to a good cause then I donate, not because some corporate giant is having troubles getting people to use their search engine, so they use the good old "think of the children!" cause to get people to do what they want them to.[/citation]
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I would change to Bing (which I am trying to do but it is VERY hard) and I would not sign up for that. I would NEVER sign up for that, if I wanted to donate I would myself. This scheme actually makes me less keen to go through the pain of changing to Bing.

 

[back_by_demand]

Already have switched to Bing, can I have my $3 anyway?

 

[shizen]

no way.. exept it's 3% of bill gates money..

 

[maydaynomore]

I really like Bing. My personal opinion is that for searches, Bing is better (better for me). But for some damned reason I always catch myself typing "google" when i want to find something. its like a bad habit. Just like smoking... you know its not good for you, but you keep doing it anyways. This is a good cause no matter what their reasons.

 

[freiheitner]

Use Goodsearch and they give a small donation to the charity of your choice every time you search or use one of their affiliate links to purchase items at eg. Amazon.

 

[anamaniac]

$3 to use Bing?
Sorry little kids in Africa, it's just not worth it.

 

[urlsen]

no

 

[bunz_of_steel]

Hell no I wouldn't do it! Micro$oft donating $$ what a punk job. Like someone mentioned it's just a PR don't put your obligation to "help the kids" contingent upon me. So childish! It's like saying I will if you will. STFU MicroS$oft either donate or get the hell out the way! Your not interested in helping anybody but your Billion dollar PROFIT racket. I agree with shin0bi272 and I never use Bung, bunghole or whatev that stupid Micro$uk $earch engine for anything.

 

[steelbox]

I'll go into Bing and search for google.

 

[wotan31]

What a complete joke. This is just like when Microsoft was giving $400 Best Buy gift cards for signing up with their MSN dial-up Internet access a few years ago. Um... Good products sell themselves. If they have to bribe you to try their product, the product probably sucks. Really sucks. Just like dial-up MSN Internet access.

 

[zubikov]

This is a new low for MS. Guilt-tripping customers into using their products. Pathetic.

 

[the_krasno]

I could do it once and keep using Google. I tried Bing, didn't like it enough to switch.

 

[Arbie]

I think Google does a tremendous amount of "good work" for the world as it is. For example. Google Earth, and their archiving of old books. As long as Google Earth is up, and free, I won't be using any other search engine. They deserve all my business.

 

[eyemaster]

They aren't desperate for customers, they are trying to get more people to use it. It's a promo, they aren't struggling to have people use it.

Do it for the donation and stop thinking they don't have enough customers. They do.

 

[ta152h]

Schools in need? They overspend like crazy, and teachers have easy jobs, with good pay and a lot of time off.

Sorry, I know it's PC to say spend money on kids, and more money for education, but it's all nonsense. Kids are spoiled, and teachers have easy jobs, and schools love spending tax payer money.

If they spent it on stray cats or dogs, or roaming donkeys, I'd do it. People suck.

 

[Regulas]

I pay a crapload in property taxes that mostly goes to our corrupt public school system and the the teacher unions. I refuse to be lured into their touchy feely donation campaigns. What is the overhead, some of these programs are so corrupt that 10cents on every dollar makes it to the cause. The rest is ate up by management salaries, many times in six figure categories.

 

[digiex]

If it send $3 to my paypal account everytime I use bing, I will use it.

 

[GenKhan2]

I irony is I've been using Bing since the day it arrived. I've always felt Google was a terrible search engine.

 

[festerovic]

I'm donating $10 not to use bing.

 

[Dirtman73]

I like Bing. Then again, I despise Google, so it's not that hard to appreciate Bing for what it is: a worthwhile competitor. Can you Google fanboiz really tell me why Google is superior?

 

[tolham]

no i wouldn't. how about microsoft just donates the money because it's the right thing to do and not use it as a guilt trip?

 

[hixbot]

[citation][nom]urlsen[/nom]no[/citation]

 

[killerclick]

Does the search engine really matter? I've used Google, Bing and Yahoo and they're pretty much the same as far as I'm concerned. I like Google because of its minimalist design but really if I had to use Bing or Yahoo I wouldn't mind.

 

[marraco]

Bing itself is a bad cause.

 

[Guest]

I'd do it for something like the defunct Altavista. But not for these big companies. greedy bastards!!!!