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I'm so sick of this vampire trend. It's everywhere now.

Commercial isn't bad otherwise. I liked it when I thought it was sex he was hungry for.

-Dan

Wow, who knew a commercial could generate so many salty and vinegary comments . . . but you asked so here ya go. Nothing wrong with this commercial at all - it's entertaining, keeps your attention and does actually demonstrate the value of search. Having said that, I get fairly sick of holiday themed ads very quickly and am already dreading the onslaught of yucko holiday music piped into gas stations, retail, coffee shops, etc. from Halloween through New Years. I really have no interest in seeing fake Christmas trees for sale before Halloween too. The whole holiday experience in marketing and retail is so over the top and over done, I'm usually already into holiday fatigue mode by The Day of the Dead.

As far as search, I have never liked the design of the Google home page, even though I've tried to spruce it up with one of the 'artist' themed backgrounds by Dale Chihuly. And am I the only person to think the new Google Wave logo is just plain ugly? I actually make a point of doing a search at least once a day on Bing just so I can enjoy the gorgeous photography and the often quirky links to related info. Have come to prefer Bing, even though I use both and am an Apple user to boot. Bing works for me; it's about the most Apple-like thing Microsoft has created from a design point of view.

Humor can sell 'cause it gets people's attention but there's a fine line between selling and insulting consumers so you have to be careful. There's probably an equal share on both sides of the isle on this one. I get lots of traffic from bing to my safety and security web site so I think they must be doing something right and with the thought of vampires stalking the neighborhood maybe my traffic will spike in the days ahead. Thanks, Chris, for this great article and for your own brand of humor.

I find this utterly confusing to say the least and a somewhat mortifying tactical approach to say the most. If MSN wants to compete with what Google has become... you know "The SE King"! They are certainly going about it the wrong way and must provide a great deal more than they are at present to win in this game. Not to say the BING team won't in the future; however, this just doesn't get it done!!! Of course this is merely my own humble opinion lol.

Lots more can be said about what they NEED to do..... as I would like to see Google taken down a notch for sure!! It's just not gonna happen with a marketing plan like this!!! I wish I had just 1% of MSN's marketing budget to waste LOL. Have a safe, happy and most blessed Halloween everyone!!

The advertising world may indeed see another trend that has been taken out of this equation.
For the last ten years, the adornation of this type movie(vampires)by the youth in the country, has become a powerfull cult within the film rentals and programing on TV as well as the cinema. The age group that has been the target for all advertising ranges from 10 to 20 years of age. The parents, and stores provide what this age group prefers. Thus you will see a great deal of problems trying to find clothes prefered by a crowd in the 30-50 years of age. This young crowd craves this type of movie, which transfers to advertising and promotion. If the viewers complain about it, their complaints are going without notice based on numbers and of the buying targets in our culture, which in return bring in the biggest return to advertisers! The ad by BING is simply staying in tune with the current trnds in promotion!

Microsoft jumping on the vampire (yet another) bandwagon. I thought the commercial was fairly lame.

This just reinforces the notion that there are no original ideas at MS.

Yelp for restaurants not Bing. And their home page looks even worse on TV.

Finally, I thought it might be better if they didn't mention Microsoft at the end either.

We always could kid ourselves by seeing the positive of "competition" ??

Microsoft tries to bring some attention to Bing, but I think there is not enough difference yet why should someone use Bing instead of Google. And I think Bing is much less relevant than Google.