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September 19th, 2012, 20:11 GMT · By Bogdan Popa

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“Bing” Becomes a Verb, Makes Its Way into Online Dictionary

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Bing, Microsoft's search engine, was designed with a major goal in mind: to become a verb and thus attract more users, in a similar way Google did with its very own search service.

And although the Redmond-based company admitted last week that Bing has minor chances to turn into a verb, Internet users have included the term “Bing” in the Collins online dictionary.

One of the definitions lists the term “Bing” as a noun – a popular search engine on the Internet – and as a verb – to search for (something on the Internet) using Bing.

Obviously, it's difficult to assume that Microsoft has something to do with this and it's even more difficult to believe that someone will ever say that he'll Bing you. Metaphorically speaking, on the other hand, it may give the sentence a whole new meaning.

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Comment #1 by: liberalrepublic on 25 Sep 2012, 22:55 UTC reply to this comment

i use bing all the time and i really like it. it was difficut to switch because you are so much used to google and it has become a habit. hey! i had the same difficulty to switch from yahoo to google.

i use the phrases both "google it" and "bing it". i sometimes say "google it with bing". its funny when you say that. lol.

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