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Bing Gains 10% Marketshare

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nowhere-to-go-but-up dept.

samzbest writes "According to ComScore's qSearch, Microsoft's retaliation against Google search, Bing, has gained significant market share, now facilitating close to 10% of US searches. That's a gain of two large points in five months."

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  1. Duh. by headhot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if this has to do with Window 7. Its the default search, and they bury the hell out of google to replace it.

  2. Re:Who would've though? by cranberryhiker · · Score: 0, Redundant
    You suggested that they should have named Bing "10^1000"...

    10^0 gives me 1, or 1 with 0 zeroes after it.
    10^1 gives me 10, or 1 with 1 zero after it.
    10^2 gives me 100, or 1 with 2 zeroes after it.

    A google (actually, googol, as named by Milton Sirotta in 1938) is 1 with 100 zeroes after it, therefore 10^100.

    (Or were you suggesting that it's that much better than Google?)