using a competing browser's search engine may not be the best place to get unbiased evidence while searching for proof or disproof of a potentially biased study. Who woulda thunk it, but if you type "NSS Labs" into Bing, you get evidence that confirms the NSS labs reports.

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

I disagree entirely. This is exactly the point.

Bing and Google both index sites on the intertubes. Does it not make sense to index the other indices? Personally, assuming that Google isnt the only one that Bing is grabbing referral data from, I think it shows real innovation.

The biggest mess, is potentially how Google altered it's search to reflect unnatural results. They have repeatedly claimed that they were unable to do so. Proving that they can, and now promise to remove this "feature" and go back to normal, that makes everything ok?

Could be a messy PR situation for Google, assuming they havent already paid the masses to hush that prize piece up.

The Zune, is actually a superior device to the Ipod or Touch. Unfortunately, this falls back to MS lack of ability to effectively market any software or hardware they provide. MS seems to focus on advertising products that MAY (read: wont) release in 3-5 years. My curiousity lies in how effective the multi-hundred-million dollar WP7 advertising campaign that will undboutedly be infecting your tv screens and monitors in the near future is going to be.

If they can market it successfully and make it appeal to consumers, people will buy it. It's a simple equation.

I have RCN (Cable and Internet) in Chicago. I have spoken candidly with technicians who come out to do installations and I have verified through several phone calls with customer representatives that they "aim" for 60% of advertised speeds. I perform speedtests, using their preferred site and have found that I am almost ALWAYS at 60% of advertised speeds. In order to get over 10 mbit/sec down, I have to pay for the "20mbit/sec" rate, and am typically around 12 mbit/sec down. If I was a normal customer, I'd easily compare the 20mbit/sec advertise rate against competition and opt for RCN's as it is the cheapest price for that advertised speed. Complete garbage and misleading to consumers. How is this legal?