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Bing Users' Click-Through Rate 55% Higher Than Google Users'
An anonymous reader writes "Techcrunch is running a story that shows some pretty significant differences in the clicking habits of users of Yahoo, Google, and Bing. As it turns out, folks who arrive at websites via Bing are 55% more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google (data based on the Chitika network). Essentially, people who use Bing are far more susceptible to advertising. Bing has acquired a decent market share in such a short time, but could it just be that they've reaped the low hanging fruit of those particularly persuaded by advertising? When their huge marketing campaign winds down, what kind of staying power will it have?"
Set your Google link to "http://www.google.com/ncr" and you will get the default English page no matter what prefs you set or where you are.
The really funny thing about this comment is that it was labeled informative...
I agree. "Informative" is for a post providing new information. It should have been "Insightful".