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Bing Jingle Rejects Hit The Web

By Steve Tanner | Sunday, August 9, 2009 2:02 PM ET

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As Tonic reported a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft held an open audition to come up with a jingle for its heavily promoted Bing search service. The winner, announced on Aug. 5, is Jonathan Mann's "Bing Goes the Internet." It's super cheesy but also oddly endearing:

But for all of you who prefer the first two or three episodes of each season of "American Idol" -- you know, featuring often-cruel and voyeuristic vignettes of hopelessly untalented crooners and croakers -- we present to you 10 choice rejects, as compiled by Silicon Alley Insider. Enjoy!

"B b b Bing" by Mike Vardy:

"Bing(le) Jingle with subitles" by Hannah and Kellen Campbell:

"I Like to Bing it Bing it" by [anonymous]:

"Say Hello to Bing" by [anonymous]:


"Bing Ballad" by Ryan Duncan:

"Trippy Post-It Notes" by [anonymous]:

"What the H-E-C-K?" by [anonymous]:

"Bing Bing Sensitive Mix" by John Clinebell:

"The Sound of Found" by [anonymous]:

"N is for Anything" by [anonymous]:

(Image courtesy of Microsoft)


Steve Tanner is a freelance writer based in the Santa Cruz Mountains who got his start covering the meteoric rise and subsequent crash-landing of Silicon Valley’s dot-com experiment.

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