bing vs ping

bing

verb
  • To bounce. 

noun
  • The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound 

  • A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore 

  • The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia. 

  • Solitary confinement 

  • A bounce. 

  • A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry 

  • The sound made by a bounce. 

intj
  • The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck 

  • The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface 

ping

verb
  • To bounce. 

  • To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response. 

  • To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. 

  • To flick. 

  • To cause something to bounce. 

  • To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. 

  • To call out audibly. 

  • To penalize. 

  • To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. 

noun
  • A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. 

  • An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement. 

  • Latency. 

  • A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. 

  • A notification. 

  • A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. 

  • A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it. 

How often have the words bing and ping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )