I was looking on Google trends and I was thinking I wonder how Bing is doing? Would Google show me the information for its largest competitor? As it turns out it did and the results are much as you would expect. Almost nothing before the launch of the search engine then a large spike, settling down somewhat and now starting to increase slowly. (I would post a picture but the image upload facility is not working.)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bing

On the image you can also see there also a small blip at the end of the year before Bing was even conceived. Thinking what could that be. The Christmasy answer was revealed when I thought of a White Christmas. It was Bing Crosby.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bing+crosby&ctab=-1&geo=all&date=all