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Bing Gaining Market Share Faster
sopssa sends along a TechCrunch report on comScore qSearch numbers indicating that Bing is currently gaining market share faster than ever before. "In December, Microsoft's search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of US search queries. That makes five straight months of steady share gains for Bing since it launched — Bing's share is up 2.7 percent in total since May, 2009. Google gained only 0.2 percent to end the month with 65.7 percent market share. What is even more interesting is if you look at year-over-year query growth rates for each search engine. Bing's growth is actually accelerating. Its growth rate in query volume was 49.4 percent in December."
Why should i have to pay for what should be a fundamental human right? I am not paying for a privilege, I am trying to defend my rights against greedy corporations. OF COURSE, companies are not going to do things unless it makes them money. That is why we have laws. Ideally, corporations should have the most laws applied to them! Far and above the ones applied to citizens. Canada stood up to google, and now all the faces on maps.google.ca are blurred.
Actually, the best things in life are free. The worst things in life try and monetize them. A "business" like google is probably more of a public utility at this point. Who purchased their internet connections again? If you are in the US, your tax dollars paid for them. I would say "nationalize" the search engines, but the american government is the most corrupt of all. What we need is a UN type body of scientists and mathematicians working on search engines. A truely global search based on taxes. Far better than for profit corporate greed.
I know i would rather pay a flat rate small tax then have to be constantly exposed to therapy inducing advertising 24x7. But then again, I value my mental state, which is not true of many in this world.
It seems some times that the world is completely backwards. You have corporations selling yourself back to YOU so that all the middlemen get to make money. American corporatism is fucked. so unbelievably fucked in the head.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
from the article: "Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before. "
doesn't that just sound like an ad or something? It sure doesn't sound like an unbiased report to me and my guess is that because of the previous report of BING losing share in Dec, someone financed this nice little 'research' paper and report to tell the world+dog that BING is really doing just fine. Just like we heard for months and months how great Windows Vista was doing while at the same time Microsoft was scrambling to throw out a patch they called Windows 7 to replace it.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. IMO
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Like Firefox, Opera and Chrome do with Google?
Quick quiz: Which of the following is a multi-convicted, monopolist felon?
a) Mozilla
b) Opera
c) Google
d) Microsoft
It's not unreasonable to expect the rules to be different for a criminal organization.