More Microsoft Otaku stuff – this time for Bing
Seems that Microsoft Japan’s aim to capture the otaku crowd has no limits. This time they are running a campaign for their search engine Bing, where if you use the search engine from their special campaign site, a little meter on the page fills up. When the meter reaches a certain stage by the deadline of the campaign, they will release digital items (wallpapers, sound themes) for their 5 new companion mascots. The mascots are voiced by Nakamura Eriko (Amami Haruka of im@s), Matayoshi Ai (some character from Saki), Takita Juri (Otonashi Kotori of im@s, and recently main heroine Satsuki Yuu of Tokimemo 4), Imai Asami (Kisaragi Chihaya of im@s), and Fujita Saki (Hatsune Miku) – quite a nice line-up of some cult favs here.
The meter is currently close to approaching 25% already despite the campaign only started on the 18th this month, and the deadline is January 18th 2010. Bing’s actually a fairly decent search engine (I especially like Bing’s image search, which IMO is better than google’s, and the seamless scrolling is worth trying), so you might as well go and give it a run if you haven’t already, for those who has already tried and uses Bing, go and help the cause to get more moe moe mascots and seiyuu sound themes on Windows.
December 30th, 2009 at 14:39
BING search engine is just as good as Google. In my own personal experience, Google does give more releveant search result than Bing but the difference is very small. **
January 12th, 2010 at 05:46
I’d use the moe search more often if it didn’t talk while I was at work :P
January 18th, 2010 at 16:53
my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
February 19th, 2010 at 01:14
I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search results. I use google for searching hard to find academic topics and Bing for general search.