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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

 
The Search Wars: With Jingles Like This, Microsoft's Bing Can't Lose!
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We've written a lot lately about Microsoft's efforts to reinvent itself, first rebranding its Live search engine as the Bing, and then partnering with Yahoo! to make Bing the search engine on Yahoo!'s still-impressive empire of content and services. But if Microsoft is going to beat Google in Search 3.0 and master shifts in the driving paradigms of the Internet from search and browsers to ubiquitous integration of social networking and other paradigms as yet unforeseen, Microsoft will need more than just brilliant engineering: They'll need clever marketing.

So it seems that the software titan is turning to user-generated advertising, such as this gem:

WARNING: Battlestar Galactica spoiler: Google may well be in danger of losing its monopoly on cool to Microsoft if Bing can get at least four of the Final Five Cylons to volunteer as back-up singers in a promo video contest.

Google clearly considers Microsoft a threat, having recently launched an ad campaign of its own for its Apps services, which compete directly with Microsoft Office.

posted by Berin Szoka @ 11:41 AM | Advertising & Marketing

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