Hawaii Five-0 product placement: "Bing it!"

[Tagemandbagem]

This show is horrendous.

[0o0dead0o0]

I swear they must have a different mobile each episode :P

[JazzyCigarette]

Oh, Johnny Gat. You're so crazy.

[illuminatioracle]

haha. nobody says bing it. that's because nobody uses bing.

[rpaxon]

Better than giving google a free plug, I suppose

[uglymages]

RUN JIN SHE'S A CYLON!!!!!!!!!

Also she got Clifton Bowles, by only typing in clif. I got Clifford the big red dog.... somethings off here.

[reeseslightning11]

This is almost as bad as the car placement ad in Transformers 3. Almost.

[n00b3st]

haters gonna hate

[JAYRAY00]

I thought that was so lame when i first saw that. Now i'm watching an episode from season 2, and they're uploading things to "SkyDrive". Mentioned it twice, and showed the phone/device twice already. Surely the actors are so embarrassed.

[manco82]

I Love it! Windows Phone 7 FTW!!!!

[btbam06]

Nice. I love binging.

[NoenHarTattMittNavn]

A show loses a lot of credibility with me doing BS like this. Anyone saying "bing it" in real life will just look like a retard. Google it FFS!

[rockysid92]

Un-freaking-believable! Talked about forced product placement and desperation to be part of the status quo. At least with the term "Google it", it became a natural term that grew amongst the general public and media.

[xoOrgullosaox]

Come on, we all know it's "google it"

[Gravitas37]

I'm sorry, it is a real LG phone, it is the LG Optimus. My bad.

[Gravitas37]

That's not even a real LG WP7.

[KissWasserman]

The (almost) weirder part is the use of the MSTRKRFT remix of the Death From Above 1979 song "Sexy Results".

[darkeagle006]

Who the hell has ever said "Bing it"???

[quadrangleman]

Never mind the fact that the name placard is visible right in front of their faces

[MissTrixie1]

Bing, better than Google!

[LouisTheJuiceWeasel]

Lame, indeed.

I like to look at Grace Park, but even she can't save this mess. The show was already an hour-long Chevrolet commercial, and now this...

[DarthKrattus]

This pissed me off big time. I used to rip on Apple for their product placement but this is just blatant.

[tojomojo62]

Jin!! How did you end up in this awful microsoft advertisement?!

[couyang2]

I mean, doesn't CSI Miami use the iphone with crazy apps that don't exist? I guess that's less obvious because everyone makes their phones look like iphones rofl. 

[Ravage27]

oh god this is painful to watch...bin it

[HippoDruggy]

i love hawaii five o and i feel sorry for Chin for having to say those lines

stay the fuck away from my tv microsoft!!!

[ImanOcean100]

I own a windows phone and I never use bing. lol that shit is useless!

[Tsugo582]

doesn't bing lead you to google anyway?

[datdamonfoo]

@Tsugo582 Nope.

[RBeakful]

You cannot beat the original design that is Apple!!

[datdamonfoo]

@RBeakful Original design? Hey, remember when Apple got sued by Creative for outright stealing its design for an mp3 player? And remember when Apple settled for 100 million?

Yeah.. How original.

[RBeakful]

@datdamonfoo Tou-frickin-che!

[LHawbster95]

shittiest piece of shit nice ohine domeumbasss

[Winterfang]

I say bingealo in spanish but I'm the only one I know that uses being and that's fairly recently. ( and love it )

[SWPryor]

try google goggles

[jhubert]

What I don't understand is how the phone actually helped her get the result. Plus, she is just clunky with it. It seems uncomfortable... and what's the screen at the end? A Tag Cloud?

[damonsalvatore17]

WOW. the whole conversation on this page is about the same thing.

[renov93]

mm, subtle, huh?

[minnaow]

I cursed out loud when I saw this, not for the product placement, but for the fact that NO ONE uses Bing, and NO ONE says 'bing it'.

[datdamonfoo]

@minnaow I use Bing and I say Bing it.

[minnaow]

@datdamonfoo That's the lamest thing I've ever heard

[datdamonfoo]

@minnaow Why?

[minnaow]

@datdamonfoo It's an obvious attempt to latch on to the success of Google, specifically how Google has itself become a verb. When Bing offers the immediacy and ubiquity of Google, maybe I'll be more receptive. Until then, all hail our Google overlords.

[datdamonfoo]

@minnaow Actually, it's simply easier and more succinct to use Bing as a verb, such as "I Binged it" rather than "I performed a web search with the Bing search engine".

[minnaow]

@datdamonfoo Doesn't make it any less lame, regardless of the convenience.

[datdamonfoo]

@minnaow But it's okay to use Google as a verb? Why the double standard? On a side note, I just listened to an interview by Howard Stern with Kathy Griffin, and she said Bing It! And this took place on June 17th, long before this commercial. It made me happy!

[Freepablo]

@datdamonfoo The double-standard is that nobody on Earth except you uses Bing so if you said "Bing it" in a conversation, I'd probably ask you to stop speaking to me in Vietnamese.

[datdamonfoo]

@Freepablo Read my previous post. Kathy Griffin also used it. So obviously I am not th eonly one on Earth who uses it.

[ItsDaveJay]

@datdamonfoo Or just say "I searched it". No one cares what search engine you're using, anyway.

[datdamonfoo]

@ItsDaveJay Tell that to everyone who says "google it".

[ItsDaveJay]

@datdamonfoo I would but that's just way too many people.

[datdamonfoo]

@ItsDaveJay Exactly. That proves that people do care what search engine one uses.

[chipsraffertic]

@datdamonfoo but people actually know what google is

[datdamonfoo]

@chipsraffertic Moronic reasoning. Do you think that people knew what "Google" was when it first started? No, of course not. It takes time to establish a brand. And please be aware that Bing owns just under 30% of search in the US market, so people obviously know what it is.

[moomeraver]

@datdamonfoo

Google didn't use awful shamless advertisements. It rose to ubiquity because it was simple, didn't cram advertisments down your neck and had a pretty memorable name that works as a verb.

That was back in the late 90s, Microsoft offered the same thing in the late 2000s.

[datdamonfoo]

@moomeraver So...Google is better because it can be used as a verb? Right. And Bing can't? Why not? And I hate to break it to you, but 1 out of 3 people now use Bing and not Google in the U.S.

So it's working.

[Yakuzaice]

@datdamonfoo

2/3 people in the US use Google, but that doesn't mean the other third use Bing. Bing is 13.9% and Yahoo is 15.7%

[datdamonfoo]

@Yakuzaice Hate to burst your bubble on this, but Yahoo is powered by Bing. That means 1/3 of the US uses Bing powered searches.

[Yakuzaice]

@datdamonfoo

The problem with that is your argument was people know Bing because it has a 30% market share. I don't think that the people who use Yahoo bother to look at the tiny "Powered by Bing" at the bottom of the page.

You might as well say Google has both their market shares because Bing has been found to use Google results for some terms. Plus Bing has only taken market share from MSN and Yahoo, so if you're going to count Yahoo, then it probably won't be getting a lot higher.

[datdamonfoo]

@Yakuzaice The problem with your argument is that you:

1. Assume people using Yahoo don't know that Bing powers their search.

2. Think that it matters whether they know, as Bing powers the search regardless.

3. Apparently aren't aware that Google's market share has been decreasing in the US for the past several months. This is a direct result of Bing's increased marketshare. There is no such thing as MSN marketshare (MSN search is Bing), and Yahoo's share has stayed steady.

Sorry try again.

[realisticHomeboy]

I hate this extremely obvious product placement.