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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 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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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.