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Bing Gains 10% Marketshare
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."
I think there is always going to be a segment of the userbase that hates a "top dog" and will switch if they think one particular company or product is getting too powerful. The differences between searches in Google and Bing are minor, so being that is the case why would 10% switch? For no reason other than because there is satisfaction in not doing what everybody else is doing.
Just my 2 cents.
Even though I loathe Microsoft's entire mentality and their sociopathic business tricks, I think having more major search engines in the play is better than having yet another de-facto monopoly gaining unbreakable (for all practical purposes) grip on many aspects of our lives.
The optimal for us, the consumers, solution is a set of at least 5 companies constantly at each other's throats but never actually able to gain upper hand. Google is already getting far too big for its own breaches and has become a power ultimately even more dangerous to the general public than Microsoft ever was (and don't get me even started at the laughable "don't be evil" corporate PR stunt).
It is high time for some competitors to cut it down to size, before its too late.
I have over 291K in unique visitors total every month over 17 different web site
the organic search engine referrals break down somewhat different.
Google: 53%
Yahoo: 28%
Bing: 14%
others: the rest
Now the quality of the traffic is interesting:
Google users leave the fastest
Yahoo users spend the most time
Bing users are in the middle
Repeat visitors
Bing users, then Yahoo, then Google
the organic traffic that provides the most conversion to sales:
Yahoo.
Paid traffic:
the best conversion rates are bing users.
the worst is google ( the roi is awful )
if you see me, smile and say hello.
No, it's a 'win' for Microsoft. Having the 'hot new search engine' is worth beaucoup advertising dollars. They can rewrite the advertising contracts and charge more cause it's a 'new system'.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Reasons? Sure. Any result on things is skewed if it relates to MS. How can you call that "reliable"?
You can't just say things and expect people to believe them, especially on this site crammed with bullshit. How about you provide at least a little evidence?
I'd rather choose my own thing not have *constant* hijacking during every IE security update.
Liar. Either that or delusional.
No IE update has ever changed your default search provider.
Also it sure is interesting that very few search results show up when I put the term google into bing, isn't it?.
Yeah. Bing reports "only" 202,000,000. Google reports 2,100,000,000.
Do you seriously think 202 MILLION search results merits the description "very few?"
I can keep searching more reasons if you want, but the end result is that the quality of results and accuracy is piss poor.
The only *actual* reason you've given that wasn't a gross exaggeration or flat-out lie is your complaints about the layout. Which is more a personal preference thing than anything.
Ugh, I just hate posts like yours. How do you even respond to someone who describes 202 million results as "very few?" Who lies about the behavior of IE patches? You're so biased that there's no way to even have a debate. There's no way in hell you'd ever give Bing a fair chance. It's just... frustrating. I feel like there's no point to even replying.
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Ah yes... It's just not possible that anyone could chose to use Bing. It's just not possible.
Well, you're 100% wrong. I use Bing's map search frequently because the "Bird's Eye" view is so dang useful when figuring out the approach route for a Geocache
That's an assumption, not a fact. There is a difference.
Bing also does video search better.
And yes, I think this is intentional, but for a different reason. Simply put, Google text search is really good, but not so with images and video, so it's easier to beat it there first. Get people start using Bing for something as early as possible, and then gradually improve text search as well.
Now try changing the default in Firefox from Google to *anything* else.
We just need to start a "Bing is Gay!" rumor.