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“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches
- Bitto 9y agoHalf of it might be "Google"
- gumby 9y agoIn case someone down votes this because it looks like a stupid sarcastic throwaway: it's in fact quite likely. Many people are unclear about how the input fields work and do type URLs or the names of sites into search pages, with google being the most common!
- tehlike 9y agoQuite likely. Even on chrome, people tend to type google which by default searched google on google :)
- squarefoot 9y agoTotally true. Nearly all non techies I know use the address bar as a search bar, and once they reach Google in some way, they type the desired site name (not the URL) and click the first result in the list, which hopefully is what they wanted. I find this frustrating, but stopped any attempt to educate them to a correct use of browsers and search engines because there is simply no hope.
- cjnicholls 9y agoDoesn't mention growth driven by Edge and Windows 10?
- djmankiewicz 9y agoThis is pretty important. Bing is installed by default on many Windows computers, and is often never taken off by some users. Those complacent users tend to be older and richer - Bing uses these statistics often in B2B marketing.
- evilduck 9y agoiOS also uses it by default for Spotlight searches.
- ryanx435 9y agoBing also has better results for coding. And it's image search is great because it gives you a few closely related phrases for you to explore.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoThey wouldn't have to prove anything with messaging like his if their search engine was really bigger than we think: they would post search profits that could come even a few miles close to Google. Let's take a look: > Bing: $2B > Google: $24B Source: https://www.google.com/amp/searchengineland.com/google-search-ad-revenues-271188/amp https://www.google.com/amp/searchengineland.com/google-searc...
- ForRealsies 9y agoThat is bigger than I thought tho.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoJust to prove a point here that these "33%" numbers don't make sense. They claim 33% of the search pie but less than 10% of the profits.
- dorgo 9y agoMaybe the advertisers pay less per click for Bing as for google?
- mywittyname 9y agoAre they still paying people to use it?
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- MarkMc 9y agoIf Bing had to pay Microsoft to be the default search engine on Windows then it's profit might be $0
- GoToRO 9y agoGreat to hear it. Now only if they made a light weight homepage. Ditch the photo or lazy load it. And there is another problem: the homepage is mostly black. If I hit search it changes to an all white page. That really hurts my eyes.
- SolCitizen 9y agoYou can change the theme at DuckDuckGo
- Jyaif 9y agoDon't tell the european union.
- swamp40 9y agoIt's ridiculously entangled into Windows 10 in half a dozen ways. Even if you switch over to Google for the browser default, you still get Bing on the Windows Start menu, Cortana, etc. The settings and options are a labyrinth specifically designed to keep a normal person from getting rid of it.
- josephjrobison 9y agoThese numbers are a bit murky. Any website owner looking at real numbers sees way, way less from Bing. Perhaps comparing true search apples to apples would help.
- halfnibble 9y agoAt least some of that growth is people jumping off the "Goolag."
- good_vibes 9y agoI'd like to know how many of those people are those who use Internet Explorer, have AOL emails, and remember life before cell phones.
- rednerrus 9y agoAre there really this many porn searches?
- SlipperySlope 9y agoBing video and Bing images are much better organized than Google. The recommendation taxonomy is better too in that regard. Follow the money and do not worry about being evil.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoLol that video preview is the best.