Is Microsoft Bing Trying To Kill Open Office? | Linux Today

Is Microsoft Bing Trying To Kill Open Office?

Written By
SB
Swapnil Bhartiya
Mar 29, 2010

“Microsoft Bing has many flaws, but this one seems to be the
most outrageous one. If you try to search for OpenOffice on Bing,
it will not show you the actual OpenOffice.org website but will
show pages from random websites like OpenOffice.com or other
non-OpenOffice.org websites.

“On the other hand Google search shows OpenOffice.org as the
first search result. Bing has gone to an extent that in fact you
will not find the OpenOffice website even in the 5th page. So, a
Bing surfer will never land on OpenOffice.org website.”


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SB

Swapnil Bhartiya

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