on search engines

[wecould]

You know, everyone's bagging on me using Bing as a search engine, but did anyone stop to think that I live with a middle-aged lady who doesn't even know what Twitter is?

It's like no one ever had a technophobic older relative growing up.

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[raincoatruinedit]

Not even the NYPD computers use Bing.

[wecould]

Not all of us can be NYPD officers, officer.

[sixthanimorph]

So you live with someone who's afraid of Google?

[wecould]

Afraid? No. But try setting up someone else's gmail account while they hover behind your back asking a million questions, see how fun that can be.

I love Aunt May, but explaining the internet to anyone isn't a good bonding experience for everyone involved.

[featheredxman]

[see this is partly why no one takes you serious Parker. Though it's an upgrade from what his mother uses]

At least your aunt cares about you. I was pretty much carted off to one boarding school or another. [Hey he's trying]

[wecould]

[Thanks for the vote of confidence, gee whiz.]

...Sorry about that. But hey, boarding school, right? You ended up at Xavier's in the end, that's gotta be worth something.

[inhavok]

It just isn't right, man.

[wecould]

Oh, come on! It was just the one time, okay. One time. And now no one ever lets you forget that crap, what the f—

[refusal]

[ so admittedly, gwen has maybe used bing once or twice when she had no other choice, but not on her own computer which brings her to her VERY IMPORTANT point: ]

It might have something to do with how that might just have been used by only you. [ p a u s e. ] Not that Bing is bad, it's just not the preferred search engine for everyone. Mainly because you think Internet Explorer when you think Bing.

It's just an unfortunate correlation between the two. You can't really help it. [ another pause and then: ] Was it the only computer? Did you share it?

[ because okay SHE CAN DEFEND IT A LOT EASIER IF THAT'S THE CASE. ]

[wecould]

Technically it's mine, but Aunt May uses it sometimes for baking recipes and tips on keeping the kitchen sink from getting clogged. It's just easier for both of us to keep that stupid browser instead of explaining why Firefox or Chrome don't have toolbars when I use them.

[He's been trying to convince her Angry Birdz is more fun than whatever it is she does on IE, okay, it's just not happening yet.]

...Shoot, toolbars. I have to uninstall that one toolbar again.

Gwen, I swear, Bing and IE— that's not me, that's not who I am.

[nevershutsup]

AND it's the browserr's preset search engine... Do people not get that Aunt May would kill me... you... us... if we changed to Google?

[Seriously... it's not like he still had a hotmail account or anything.]

Just hope they never find our angelfire website, man...

let's just pretend this is marvel's normal verse shenaginans

[wecould]

What angelfire website. You just used a string of words I've never had the fortune of knowing.

[haha no what's been created back in grade school stays in grade school.]

[herownperson]

But it's so easy.

"Aunt May! All those pictures of Spider-Man I took? Well, he tracked me down and got rid of the Bing on all of our computers! I can't get it back!"

And then teach her to use Google.

i'm guessing drew!spider-woman? literally just threw myself into the comics minutes ago

[wecould]

Going from point A to point B is gonna take a lot more guile than that, and my Aunt May's not as easy to fool as the rest of New York. And there's always the chance she'll ask me to bring it back, and it sucks to lie to her about stuff, you know?

[Except for the really obvious one thing, but that's something else entirely.]

[introuble]

[ teenytinysmallsmile. and then a deliberately awkward pat on the shoulder, because really she's just trying not to laugh. ]

Try not to think about it too much. If anything, I think it's a little odd that people care this much about which search engine you use at all... [ and now she is laughing because of all the things Peter you've been run down by police officers but you're worried about these people and their Bing-hate. please, whenever you'd like to stop being so endearing, by al-- actually no, never stop. ]

You'll be alright. You'll pull through this one, I know it.

[ now she's laughing a little more ]

[wecould]

[You don't understand, he's tried so hard and gotten so far on cultivating that ironic hipster cred all these years and a search engine is single-handedly destroying all his work. He's already lost his lomo camera to a lizard and he's had to default to an off-rack board, this is just

adhjdflsalakjsdf;

keyboard keys stuck to fingers okay]

At least you think it's funny.

[ }8T ]

[moltenman]

I might be be missing the point but what difference does it make, Parker? Aren't all search engines the same?

[wecould]

[His hands love his face today.]

Bing is an unnecessary prop to a severely outdated internet browser that only the tech-blind ever use. It's—

It's a thing.

[peektuttut]

You seriously need an upgrade.

[wecould]

More like I need a new identity.

[neveracoward]

Bing. My mun's computer was stuck on that as a homepage for a while, which was embarrassing.

[wecould]

You guys are never gonna let me live this one down, are you.

[nerdylilspidey]

I... Personally, I don't see what the big deal is.

[wecould]

It's— You know what, I'm way too invested in this.

Firefox or Chrome?

[vigilancy]

We're branded for life.

[wecould]

It's never gonna go away. It's our scarlet letter.

Save me.

[readyornot]

What's a bing?

[wecould]

It's a search engine y—

Hey.

[



No, he doesn't really have words for little him right now. Er.]

What's up, little guy?

[web_head]

Young man. Back in my day, we didn't have Bing. We had to do our work in the streets. That's what I would say, if I was like Cap or Wolverine.