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Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source
- aresant 17y agoThe fact that a full 42% of their traffic is originating from MSFT, and they’re still investing tens of millions in advertising, AND they have Yahoo wrapped up makes their relative gains look PATHETIC. MSN is the default start-page in IE8 and that is being whittled away due to the anti-trust. In the past 6 months that more and more of the links on the homepage link directly back to BING search results. From a UI perspective, this is not ideal and to see such low gain #s despite these efforts is eye opening about google's dominance.
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- elpuri 17y agoIs it totally out of the question that some people might type in bing.com or have it as their browser's start page? The 42% is MSFTs share of referring sites.
- whatwhatwhat 17y agoMore people search on Google for Google than they do for Yahoo or Bing... that is just.... humorous
- kiba 17y agoGoogle is a very tough nut to crack. They got like thousand of hackers fine-tuning Google's algorithm and A/B testing on a massive scale. This make them very nimble and responsive to any competitors who dare to compete with them. Google is like a sumo wrestler. Despite the appearance of fatness, it is actually very fast, strong, and healthy.
- eru 17y agoYou could probably say the same thing about Microsoft, couldn't you?
- clistctrl 17y agoIt wouldn't surprise me if people are just forgetting to add .com, i've done it myself. In chrome i'll type bing (instead of bing.com) since google is my default search engine, I'm routed through google. I'm using it because Bing has a great flight search and comparison, also their video search is pretty good too.
- Jim72 17y agoGood point. It works the same with Firefox. In fact, it is an advertised feature that you don't have to add the .com.
- Jim72 17y agoI don't know when it began, but I stopped using the address bar quite some time ago. I found it easier to type in the url into Google. If I make a typo, it offers a correction, and I don't accidentally end up whitehouse.com, if you know what I mean. That said, I don't think people are searching for "search engines" on Google. I think people are like me in that they use Google as an address bar.