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Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com)
Microsoft said this week that Bing is "bigger than you think" and provided some numbers that could be a surprise to many. The company claims that fully one-third of searches in the US are powered by Bing, either directly or through Yahoo or AOL (both of which provide results generated by Microsoft). From a report: With 9% market share worldwide and 12 billion monthly searches, almost half of that (5 billion) comes from the United States where Bing has 33% market share.
"Google"
... how?
...Microsoft wouldn't have to bribe people to use it. (See: Bing Rewards)
Running a search on Bing every damn time someone hits an MS web page doesn't count...
They should have chosen something intuitive or descriptive like Google.
Bing is the best porn search engine out there.
After they weaseled Win10 onto everyone and set it as the default search engine, does this really come as a surprise?
Traffic from Google is 28x all other search engines combined.
I haven't found any real advantage of Bing over Google other than some cosmetic stuff. I remember Microsoft Adds a while back showing that without the cosmetic differences Bing and Google were not differential. Which pretty much failed. Because if you are already using one product why would you change over to an other product that does the same thing?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
search Bing for whatever porn you want, let's say tentacle henai, then click on the "Video" tab. It will pull up lots of videos of tentacle hentai. Also you can watch these videos from Bing search results without going to the video's originating website (which can be very sketchy and full of malware)
This is just more fake news from Microsoft. Most people don't care what search engine they use and probably have no idea how to change the default anyway, so they use whatever is there so long as they find what they want. If you snuck into their houses and changed it to Google they not only wouldn't care, they probably wouldn't even notice. In fact it would be hilarious if some black-hat (or white-hat for that matter) created malware that changed everyones default search engine to anything but Bing.
The just got back from swimming in the pool, and the water was cold...
I tried to google it but no luck.
Using your monopoly power to force Windows 10 users to perform any Contana search request through Bing sure helps... but of course Google isn't much better.
I don't care how big Google or Bing is. Search is a commodity now. I don't really care which farm grew my morning grapefruit either.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Since BIng came out, I signed up for the money rewards back in the day. I probably received over 500 bucks over a few months of use. Microsoft sent me a couple of checks probably totaling around $500. Although Microsoft quit the $$ rewards years ago, I have gotten close to another $500 - $600 in gift cards. I have close to 30k points now I need to redeem. (Amazon money)
Plus it's not all that bad.
I suspect many non-porn Bing searches are variations on "How do I set Google as my default search?"
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I've been proudly using Bing every since Google trampled on Free Speech and fired James Damore.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
I don't know anyone who uses Bing deliberately.
You would think that Google would own search via API, but actually Google's APIs for searching the whole web are surprisingly shitty. Bing's on the other hand perform just as well, require no configuration, and are far less expensive.
http://www.techradar.com/news/bing-dong-microsoft-search-engine-serves-up-ri-dick-ulous-sand-shlong
About 40% are how to switch to Google as default.
60% are from Microsoft's AI, Tay trying to search how to meet sexy alt-right single men.
Tay keeps re-submitting because bing thinks she wants to buy packs of American Singles. White cheese, of course!
Nope, that is actually right around what I would have guessed.
The only time I use Bing is when Firefox screws up and somehow changes the default from Google to Bing. Now someone tell me why this keeps happening so I can fix it and get that 9% down to 8.9% for the rest of world.
..." that fully one-third of searches in the US are powered by Bing, ..."
Only because there are so many browsers that MS has managed to get Bing setup as the default search engine. The worst was my Thunderbird email client. Not only did it have Bing set as the default search engine, but MS had somehow made it so that Google was not on the list of selectable search engines if you wanted to change from Bing. You actually have to install an add-on to get Google as a search option. I wonder how much they 'donated' to Thunderbird for that one.
"Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft"
Alas nobody else says this.
When you design your operating system to force people to use your search engine. If you want to use cortana, you have to use bing.
After Google's stupidly-botched and poorly-justified handling of the Damore memo incident, I'm giving Bing more of my search traffic, along with DuckDuckGo. It's clear that viable alternatives have to be kept alive so that when we disagree with a giant's policies we have elsewhere to take our business.
So, after all these years, Bing remains so irrelevant that you have to resort to proclaiming that it is not irrelevant?
I hope this is true, too many fish in one pot (read: Google; obviously) is bad joojoo.
Seriously, do Microsoft employees actually use Bing? Back in the day when we had HotBot, WebCrawler, Yahoo, etc., etc., they would all produce independently useful and alternative results. These days, for better or for worse, the only tangible results seem to come from Google. I'm sure there's alternatives but Microsoft is not one of them.
He had a real self-effacing humor which played off well against Frank Sinatra's brash cockiness.
#DeleteChrome
Here in China for one month. Bing is sh...t. Baidu also.
I have a VPN, but Baidu and some services (Wechat) sometimes refuse to answer a known VPN IP making chinese services and Google mutually exclusive.
Fuck Bing. Put that in your chart and plot it.
This is also what I always say before getting kicked out of the bed :(
Not reflected in reality
On the other hand I'm surprised Yahoo is still close to Bing usage....
If they aren't prepared to handle the global market they will remain strong. They keep launching products with US centric features and relevance and are extremely slow to grow support in other countries and cultures.
Twinstiq, game news
Screw nuklear war with NK this is.truley frigthning
The iPhone uses Bing when Siri is searching for something for you. What percentage of the total Bing searches are simply mobile users asking where the nearest restaurant/store/whatever is or when the next movie is, or...
Microsoft will literally pay you to use Bing. They'll give about a third of a cent per search in rewards. And I still don't use it.
Bing is the default in a lot of corporate systems. It's like that where I work, and we can't even change the bookmarks.
But I think the big thing is simply that it's the default to Siri.
"Bing is 'Binger Than You Think' "
FTFY
It would be physically impossible for Bing to be smaller than I think it is.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
Microsoft pays billions to get people to use bing unitenntially and thinks Bing is big. Haha. Microsoft = North Korea
DDG uses Bing as one of its primary search engines. Just an interesting factoid.
I would never search in Bing, not because I might think they can't provide the service, which they can, but for ethical reasons.
It's how you use it.
Because I block Bing on my firewall as I discovered Microsoft was using it for the Windows 10 phone home. Just block 65.52.108.210, 204.79.197.200 and 13.107.21.200 - buh bye Bing! And it's funny my firewall logs - it's all hits to those IP's. So I know I blocked the right ones. So far nobody on this network has complained and there are about 8 of us using it. And not a single Windows mobile device either.
De-fault! De-fault! De-fault!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Nothing about how Google has pushed Chrome through dubious means to be the #1 browser, which, by default, uses Google for searching.
They both are playing fast and loose.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Let me guess, it's not the size but how you use the search?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
Google Search hidden piracy link, use for pirate yandex.com
I use it for their reward system, I earn like $5 from amazon, or can use it to earn credits in their Microsoft store for games/videos.
Good enough search results for me. I'll still use google occasionally, but getting $5 amazon e-credit takes little, to no effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bing comes as a default search engine (as does Edge), it's obligatory to use in Windows 10S, and Microsoft offers freebies for people who use it (a big reason why the percentage is so big in the US - Bing rewards is not available in several countries).
Sure, some people use and like it, but I'd say 9% worldwide is a huge failure when you are trying to sway the market with agressive strategies like those.
Microsoft owns the default, and fools leave it alone.
Me, I prefer privacy: Duck Duck Go.
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You've cornered the market on people too stupid or lazy to change their default search. If bing wasn't the IE/Edge default I'm willing to bet you'd have 0% market share.
That wouldn't be hard
(stolen from coworker)
And all they had to do was to abuse their market position with Windows to force all OS searches to execute through both its browser and its search engine. Making your users install a 3rd-party browser extension just to hack their operating system and use their preferred search engine are not the moves of a good business.
Somebody made a thing out of that?
Jeez, I can barely see it even in the zoomed-in picture.
What counts is bing is exactly as shitty as i think.
And don't even get me started on microsoft...
I use Bing because it makes competition in the market place. For advanced searches I still use Google, but that's just because my google-fu is better.
As long as it does not become "too big to fail"
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Bing is better than google at finding Porn.
It has a better video view interface too.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Since Google has changed it's policy from "do no evil" to "do the right (alt-left) thing", the purging of James Damore for a well written, thoughtful document that challenged the alt-left ethos https://medium.com/@Cernovich/... was the last straw for me. I have switched away from Google as my default search engine, removed the Chrome browser from my PC and directed all meaningful email away from my Gmail account. I have also switched from ABP to a pi-hole to deny all ad revenue to the leaches.
Google used to be a great tech company, but it is clear that they are no longer interested in science or the truth if it contradicts their worldview and are only secondarily interested in innovation. For a company through which the vast majority of the information in the world is filtered, that is a very bad thing. They are no longer interested in the most accurate results, they are interested in the right results, whatever they might determine that might be. They were already caught interfering with the autocomplete suggestions when searching for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections. I suspect that they will continue to dramatically lose market share until they get a CEO who cleans house of all the SJW types in positions of power and gets back to focusing on the core technology.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
The company claims that fully one-third of searches in the US are powered by Bing, either directly or through Yahoo or AOL
Using Bing to browse Porn would explain 33% of US searches.
Using Bing through Yahoo would explain .3% (or less)
Using Bing through AOL would explain .03% (or less)
Yup. That adds up to about 1/3rd.
I agree that monopolies can be unhealthy.
More detail about the ethics: Microsoft pays Mozilla Foundation through Yahoo to make Bing the default search engine in Firefox. Bing is used by a lot of people because they don't know about other options. That isn't "popular".
Windows 10 is used by a lot of people because they were forcefully switched away from their original Microsoft OS version. That isn't "popular".
I think it is instructive that Bing is being used behind the scenes where users are not actually choosing it. Beyond that, they mentioned AOL and Yahoo. Their users are the most unsophisticated users on the Internet and may not even be aware of other search options.
I actually use Bing more and more these days. Don't want all my data to be captured by Google. And M$ much more incompetent to use big data in any creepy way anyway.
The one computer I own that does run Win10 has Bing blocked.
Since Microsoft has a habit of every patch returning Bing and Microsoft Edge to be the default; 1/3 of the internet searches sounds right with the percentage of clueless net users that have no clue how to change defaults.
NRRPT/RCT