bing Say NO to French Canadians?

Microsoft has a contest looking for a jingle to go along with the bing search engine. Great idea, but it would seem to me that the bing search engine team doesn’t like French Canadians or maybe they only fear Celine Dion will enter the contest?

Microsoft’s contest to find a jingle for bing is open to “everyone” around the world except people living in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and anyone that lives in Quebec, Canada. Very strategic move on Microsoft’s part as Celine Dion has been known to enter into contests that she doesn’t belong in (Eurovision 1988).

While it’s good to see Microsoft/bing being active in understanding that there is Canada and then there is Quebec and helping prevent Celine Dion from taking anymore un-need attention, I don’t think this will be a problem for the rest of the French Canadians as this contest and rules are both in English.

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/07/20/ever-get-a-catchy-jingle-stuck-in-your-head.aspx

As for the rest of the world, go ahead and make your bing jingles/videos. While not an official entry this is my personal favourite bing related video on YouTube:

One Comment on “bing Say NO to French Canadians?”

saube says:

August 4, 2009 at 4:57 pm

hey! i was about to have your blog in my favaorites but just came up to : bing Say NO to French Canadians?

this has nothing to do with french canadians !!! its just that we have laws on contests, lotery, … that arent the same for then the rest of Canada. Most contest online or in magazine, … etc. are not open to Quebekers (english or french speaking)