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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.
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)
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.
..." 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.
It's actually super relevant. A lot of people use it, i get ribbed for using it all the time but have no problems using it as my default search engine in the USA. I hear it can suck in foreign countries, but that's not a problem for me.
Lots of people enjoy bing.. great image search, great SERP design for common topics and they're continuously improving it. They have public conferences once a month where there are thousands of people on the phone hearing about new features and testing new services. It's huge, but written off by so many for reason i fail to understand. (again, unless you don't use US searches.. i can't speak for anywhere else)
Millions of people use it for bing rewards too.. its nice getting free music, games, xbox live points et all just for doing what you would normally do anyway.
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.