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		<title>The New York Post on Bing vs. Google? Really?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The New York Post is a “scandal sheet” tabloid newspaper that’s best known for its sensationalistic, hilarious headlines. A few examples:

When beer magnate Freddy Heineken was kidnapped, they ran a story titled No Deposit, No Return. 
When New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was linked to a prostitution ring: Ho No. 
On the possibility of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="New York Post logo" border="0" alt="New York Post logo" align="right" src="http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/new_york_post.jpg" width="240" height="44" /></a> The <em>New York Post</em> is a “scandal sheet” tabloid newspaper that’s best known for its sensationalistic, hilarious headlines. A few examples:</p>
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<li>When beer magnate Freddy Heineken was kidnapped, they ran a story titled <strong><em>No Deposit, No Return</em></strong>. </li>
<li>When New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was linked to a prostitution ring: <strong><em>Ho No</em></strong>. </li>
<li>On the possibility of a “Deep Impact”-style collision of a cosmic object with Earth: <strong><em>Kiss Your Asteroid Goodbye</em></strong>. </li>
<li>When <em>Newsweek</em> retracted its story about the interrogation tactic of flushing copies of the Qu’ran down the toilet: <strong><em>Holy Shiite</em></strong>. </li>
<li>A famous one from 1982: <strong><em>Headless Body in Topless Bar</em></strong>. </li>
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<p>There’s even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Headless-Body-Topless-Bar-Headlines/dp/0061340715#">a book that features the best (worst?) of their wacky headlines</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10264417-75.html">So when you read the <strong><em>Fear Grips Google</em></strong> story in the Post</a><em></em>, you should remember that tech really isn;t their forte and that you might want to take it with a grain of salt. I think <em><a href="http://searchengineland.com/ny-post-fear-grips-google-really-20987">Search Engine Land</a></em> sums it up best:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bing is probably better than Google anticipated and </strong><a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-now-considers-bing-search-engine-20914"><strong>early indications are favorable</strong></a><strong> in terms of user adoption;</strong> however not on any scale to threaten Google’s position. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is taking Bing seriously and trying to carefully assess its algorithm.</p>
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<p>Still, the graphic accompanying the <em>Post’s</em> article, <strong><em><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/06142009/business/fear_grips_google_174235.htm">Fear Grips Google</a></em></strong>, is amusing:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/06142009/business/fear_grips_google_174235.htm"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="&quot;The Searchers&quot; Bing vs. Google infographic from the New York Post" border="0" alt="&quot;The Searchers&quot; Bing vs. Google infographic from the New York Post" src="http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/the_searchers.jpg" width="600" height="465" /></a></p>
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