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Bing Search Overtakes Yahoo
SharkLaser writes "Microsoft's Bing search engine has overtaken Yahoo for the first time. While both Bing, Yahoo and a bunch of meta-search engines like the privacy-oriented DuckDuckGo use Bing's back-end, it clearly shows Yahoo's declining market share. comScore has also released its search data for 2011 — overall, Bing gained 3.1% of market share while Yahoo lost 1.5% and Google lost 0.7%. Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson has lots of work to do."
So, a shitty useless search engine overtakes a lame search engine. No wonder Yahoo is so useless it uses Bing.
Indeed. The astroturfers have mod points as well. I can see your comment possibly being modded "offtopic" but only an idiot or a shill would have marked it "troll". I wish someone would mod you back up.
Bing didn't pass Yahoo because Bing's search engine is any good, it passed Yahoo because Bing's interface is clean and sharp and fast -- compared to Yahoo's incredibly shitty interface; plus, Yahoo search uses Bing's engine. Of COURSE Bing would pass them. Duh.
A fellow earlier responded to one of the shills saying that he contributed by mistake because of MS's underhanded tactics, and I have as well. A programn I DLed from C|NET changed Firefox's default search engine to Bing and even added a goddamned Bing toolbar. No more DLs from C|NET for me! That's just fucking sleazy. If you have to trick people into using your product, your product must REALLY suck.
When you have to resort to paying shills to post and moderate on messageboards, you're pretty goddamned sleazy as well. Even if their products didn't suck I'd still avoid them if possible just because of their sleaze. It's insulting and annoying.
Now go ahead and mod me troll as well, shills.
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