Google or Bing? Where's the pic of Sanford's lover?
The people have googled. The people have binged.
And still there is no sign of the one thing the world needs most: a picture of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentinian lover.
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According to Fox 5 in New York, "maria belen shapur photo" was one of the top searches on the Web of intrigue Thursday. And according to Google Trends, "mark sanford mistress photo" rounds out the top 10 Google searches at the moment. Yet no trace has been found of the governor's taste in clandestine lovers.
It is a little sad that the media is pitching its large and very moral tent outside Ms. Shapur's Buenos Aires apartment. Somehow, affairs of the heart don't always seem the most appropriate subjects for public conjecture. It's just that they're so deeply exciting that we cannot prevent our more fundamental instincts from taking over.
So I prefer to think of this as a technological exercise, a mixed martial-arts battle of the search engines.
Will Google have it first? Will Bing's decisive algorithm slap its more vaunted rival across the chops and proclaim triumph? It may only be a matter of milliseconds. But in the search business, milliseconds count.
I bet you just can't wait.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
Yes, they are. Very crafty indeed.
Chris
Where the h3ll is Argentina?
It's the 2nd largest nation in south america:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=argentina+map&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=a_NDSujjMpSKsgPR9KTsDQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1
Honestly, I think both of the search engines would do well to stay out of this. This worthless sensationalism is exactly why I am slightly frightened that print media is on it's death bed.
Thanks for wasting my time with this completely worthless article. Do you have editors at CNET? Or is it just a free-for-all of journalisitic masturbation?
Or maybe it took you 5 minutes to get through reading the 9-word headline?
http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2009/06/25/photos-meet-maria-belen-chapur-sanfords-mistress/
What kind of sad loser would be so desperate to look at the site anyway.
Hey! You're right, it IS down.
I've been under a rock for a little while and haven't been watching TV...so I'm not sure what that is. I googled it and the only things that came up were ads for Windows 7 and Bing Crosby albums....
Hmmm...
- by AppleSuxLeo June 27, 2009 9:39 AM PDT
- Use BING...and put a DING in Google. Google is evil.
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