You know Vampires really are becoming far too much of an “in thing” when even Microsoft have gotten on to them for the purposes of advertising.

No, I’m being serious.

By now, if you don’t live under a rock or own an iPhone, you will have heard of MS’ latest search engine called Bing. They’ve been going on an insane spending spree advertising it, spending about six times as much as the actual development costs so far, according to some rumours. If they have to pay a licensing fee for this atrociously b-grade knock off of True Blood, I think I’d believe that.

On the bright side, they get some points back for this hilarious knock off of The Shining.

With all that said, having used it a bit, it’s actually a pretty decent search engine if you’re looking for something to purchase or pay for, specifically. It definitely seems geared towards commercial transaction over “imparting knowledge” or “the end user experience”.

Oh, and happy halloween folks…