Microsoft’s Bing Still Trying Not to End Up Like Apple’s eWorld

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Microsoft is out with a couple new ads for Bing. The ads parody movie classics such as Easy Rider and Thelma and Louise. The ads illustrate how each movie’s outcome might have changed had the characters had access to Bing.

Alas, revisionist history is just that. And in a world organized and categorized by Google, it’s unlikely Bing will amount to anything more than Apple’s eWorld did back in the days when AOL ruled the world.

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