On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:54:19 -0500
Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
> > On 5 March 2012 23:26, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote:
> >> On 03/05/2012 09:45 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote:
> >>> So far nobody's mentioned Bing. I know many hard-core FOSS peoples
> >>> (myself included) would never touch it, but many new users might.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Good point...
> >
> > I say we ignore it. Don't some of the features require Silverlight? At
> > one point they did. My vote is no.
> 
> What's Silverlight? I never heard of it. I just tested Bing in
> Firefox, and it worked fine. The video previews in their video search
> was a bit glitchy, but I was able to click the videos and watch them
> normally. All their other search functions (web, images, maps, news,
> and shopping) seemed to operate fine too. Although Bing is way to
> flashy for me, and does not operate/organize itself in a way that I'd
> consider using it,

Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt at a Flash clone.  For obvious reasons,
it never really caught on.

While I, personally, dislike Bing and would never use it, I support adding it
to the list of search engines, if only to make moving from Windows to
Linux with Trinity infinitesimally easier for some people.