Bing features badly drawn leopards

[giza]

I don't use Bing, but someone on Twitter pointed out to me that yesterday's front page on Bing featured badly drawn leopards:



Feel free to draw your own conclusions about cheetahs, leopards, and modern search engine technology.

Comments

[dragonof31102.livejournal.com]

they don't look badly drawn? Did they change it? Cause it looks like a photograph to me.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Click the arrows in the lower right. That was yesterday's picture.

[dragonof31102.livejournal.com]

still don't see it. Guess it doesn't like me. :/

[pippinbear.livejournal.com]

I'd guess it's regional. I'm in the UK and don't see any cheetahs, leopards or other big cats on http://www.bing.com/. Flipping back and forth through the front-page pictures using the little arrows in the bottom right corner, I see mostly landscapes, with a football pitch, some lasers, some microbes and a cave thrown in for good measure. If there's a joke about cheetahs being badly-drawn leopards, or if there are some actual badly-drawn leopards, I don't see them.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I can understand using GeoIP for some things, such as targeting ads, but it seems silly to care about a user's location when displaying wallpaper of non-political, non-religious items.

[thrashbear.livejournal.com]

Okay, just so I have my info correct: the cats above are leopards, but they're billed as cheetahs? Because I can't tell the difference.

[andrew7782.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sir, those are most definitely cheetahs.



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[thrashbear.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the clarification.

[giza.livejournal.com]

You can't trust him, he's a cheetah!

[omnibahumut.livejournal.com]

I am confused

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I also don't get it.
I mean, I can see how "cheetahs are badly drawn leopards" would be a joke, but who made it?
Or did they actually label those as leopards?

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

Kitties.

[mapdark.livejournal.com]

huh... I don't get it

[simbab.livejournal.com]

http://twitpic.com/1ofi19

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

Kitties!

*pouncehugs*

[bluedeer.livejournal.com]

I see the same pic above when I flip through it, I guess it was a joke I just didn't get. :P