for extensive
editing and proofing by a circle of reviewers. What mattered was to get the
idea out and to start the conversation, editing and polish would follow later.

Great stuff!

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myprasanna
I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top
of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it
was my personal blog and I had sent to Michael Arrington, who wanted to
edit/publish it. For some reason, he backed out at the last moment and it
din't make it to TC. Welcome to the world of citizen journalism.

Sorry about the typos/errors. I'm looking into this now :)

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AJ007
Was this get modified? I didn't notice anything reading through.

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latch
The OP seems to attribute the "failure" of bing to common problems associated
with Microsoft (in specific) and large companies (in general). With a specific
point that it all started wonderfully, then got corporatized. I'm happy
believing that this was the main problem.

But...as an end user i don't think Bing was/is ever as as close to Google as
the OP seems to think.

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exit
why was kami8844's comment instantly flagged?

it's really disgusting to see people quietly being blacklisted.

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1 point by kami8844 0 minutes ago | link [dead]

I had to do some web scraping for an application that I recently wrote and
only when my app's performance started to rely on the results provided by the
various search engines out there, I started to fully appreciate how good
Google is. It's just no comparison; in edge cases and unconventional searches
(where it really matters) Google completely creams the competition. While Bing
came closest to providing search results as accurate as Googles it still
wasn't at any comparable level, so all in all I agree with your point.

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gjm11
I wonder whether it's an automatic consequence of having substantial negative
karma.

(I'm ambivalent about the stealth-blacklisting thing. It's probably the right
thing to do with genuinely abusive users. It might be the right thing with
p