Bing lists my job from 2001
I want to like Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. It’s pretty! The video results that play when you mouse over them are cool. And Microsoft people are smarter and nicer than anyone in Silicon Valley wants to admit, so I like for them to win once in a while. Too bad Bing, now live after several days of post-launch downtime, returned my first search with a tidy line of info on me that’s eight years out of date. My guess is that Bing searches an old copy of the Open Directory Project’s dmoz database. There’s no way for me to correct Bing’s entry or flag it as incorrect. Can’t I tweet at it or something?
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Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music & video, and any crazy Internet story. Paul wrote and edited for Valleywag from 2006-2008, after several years with Wired magazine and Slate. He writes regularly for The New York Times' technology section and sometimes for Wired and The Wall Street Journal. He studied computer science at MIT in the early 1980s, and worked as a software developer and network administrator for 15 years before becoming a professional writer. Follow him on Twitter at @paulboutin, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.
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