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

[Computerrock1]

Sweet, my school needs the money!

 

[NoCaDrummer]

They must be hard up for "customers". I'd rather pull $5 or more out of my pocket (and have on many occasions) for my local schools. At least I know it actually went there.
BTW, $100,000/$3= ~33,000 donations. A pittance, in my opinion.

 

[victomofreality]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]$3 to use Bing?Sorry little kids in Africa, it's just not worth it.[/citation]

+1... I'll send $3 on my own for continuing to use google.

 

[brianfulcher15]

i dont like bing. but for the kids maybe for a few min.

 

[dextermat]

no bing sucks:

and 2.99 goes directly to MS

there's always a catch

 

[itpro]

I already use Bing as my default search engine, and find it to be far superior to Google. But, then again, ANY search engine is superior to Google's spyware!

 

[david485]

i just finished switching over about 2 dozen work computers to bing and was able to donate about 75 dollars for literacy and language.

i'll do the same when i get home too.

 

[coldmast]

no

 

[coldmast]

How much will MS donate if I start using Windows 7 and also switch from using Open Office to Microsoft Office 2010?

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]icepick314[/nom]I don't get these "cheap" donations from big companies....first of all...it's MS....$100,000 to them is like a penny donation to normal people...I like Bing....it's good alternative to Google....but impress me with $multimillion donation if you're gonna go at it....[/citation]
Here it is called the Bill & Melinda foundation....
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx


You can't even spend 5 mins to give 3$, take a long look in the mirror @ who does what for who!

 

[drwho1]

hell no!
why should anyone pay to use a search engine?
cause that's what this stunt would end up been if enough dumb people
fall for it.

 

[wawa sxm]

[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]
one question are u donating or actively helpig out in ur community?
reality is that most do want to help but dt want to be bothered or its just inconvenient for them....this is nice no reason not too
if microsoft really beleived that bing is superior they would donate much more then a trivial 100k....especially when you consider the state in which american schools are

 

[blackmancer]

WHY not just give the money away.....

it's seems desperate doesn't it.

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]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.[/citation]
You need to see the movie "The Cartel: How Special Interests Block Real Education Reform" They go through the schools that have the poorest performance records and count the luxury automobiles in the parking lot... the higher the number of Mercedes the worse the school is! Its like the teacher's unions and the politicians dont understand that the teachers are the problem not the money the bulk majority of the time.

But today Steve Balmer came out and said that he's giving away half of his entire fortune to charity when he dies... gates already announced he and buffett were giving away all of their money to charity when they die (finners crossed its this year for tax purposes). So why the hell are they on this everyone be charitable kick? Obama. They (buffett, gates and balmer) and google are all big lefties who abuse capitalism to make their billions then tell all of us to give away our money as if we aren't living paycheck to paycheck (trying to afford 200 bucks for windows 7 maybe). They think that if they are seen proclaiming to give all their money away that maybe obama wont sick his regulatory czar or his science and technology czar on them as being evil capitalist pigs. It's purely self interest even though it sounds like they care about the children they just dont want the government to come down on them like they did the health care or banking sectors... with 2300-3000 pages of regulation.

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]Dirtman73[/nom]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?[/citation]
They developed a new type of search engine that checks the number of times a link has been clicked on a site and they put that link higher up than other links involving the same subject matter that have not been clicked so much. So rather than a simple search it really does prioritize the results much better than any other search engine out there. Well at least as far as popularity goes... you can still dig down to page 20 of the returns to find some guy in south korea who made a fan page to the porn star youre looking up (he he he).

 

[dEAne]

hahaha that's fine for me.

 

[yannifb]

That new richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, should donate something for gods sake. He has 53.5 billion $. I hope he realizes that that little .5 at the end is $500 million. Thats alot for any charity. All it is to him however is no longer being number 1.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]amnotanoobie[/nom]At $3 per donation, they'd end up only donating $99,999!..Or am I missing something here?[/citation]
Yep, you are missing up to $100000.

 

[garyshome]

Let's all switch so microsoft looks like they have a heart. Bet the 100000.00 is a tax write off TOO. Anything to keep that money out of obamas hands.

 

[Usersname]

Why would I want to donate a single dime to an American school when the total offered by MS is equivalent to about seven hours income for Ballmer? Plus, there is a world beyond the notional borders of the un-USA.

 

[chaoski]

100k? 90% of it will go to "none profit" organization, it's employees and the CEOs.

10k for the "kids"

neh

 

[bugo30]

[citation][nom]chaoski[/nom]100k? 90% of it will go to "none profit" organization, it's employees and the CEOs.10k for the "kids"neh[/citation]


Naw, they're pretty open about it on the website. They ask for 13% to go for the non-profit overhead, and the rest goes to the cause. Also, the teachers who register the project can choose whether or not to include that in the donation goal.

 

[xerroz]

I've been using Bing since it came out...overall I've had a better experience than the years I had with google. The searches are more the point (without bullshits thats not even related to my search like google does) and it looks awesome

 

[xerroz]

Bing is superior, fact.

 

[kooltime]

Bing sucks - end of story,

They have to pay you to use that garbage as nobody in thier right mind would use it otherwise.

as of today --

Google.com = get title and search bar nothing more then its intended purpose no forced unwanted solicitaion material embedded all over it.

Bing.com You move your mouse wrong before you click the search bar and you get to learn about volcano's or condoms lol.

Reguardless of whom claims better results the afformention effects of using the site even before clicking search = google win all day long.