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I'm convinced that the only reason Microsoft is keeping Bing alive is to keep Windows 10 users from funneling money to Google by default.
by amyjess 10y ago
I'm convinced that the only reason Microsoft is keeping Bing alive is to keep Windows 10 users from funneling money to Google by default.
- nojvek 10y agoWindows use is pretty large and Bing is profitable. Edge is funded by bing profits I believe. Only large companies can afford to make browsers. They are insanely complicated beasts now. Google because ad and Android, Microsoft because windows and Bing, Apple because of ios. Firefox is facing struggles and Opera gave up to webkit. Disrupting Google search is going to be very hard. Google invests more than anyone in AI. If someone were to disrupt Google, they have to have very strong models of the world, natural language parsing, image recognition, knowledge reasoning, troves of data and an ocean of servers and fibre. Google hasn't been sitting idle, they've been disrupting themselves and pushing towards those fronts.