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IE and Edge seem to make up about 10% of market share, while the rest goes to chrome, safari and firefox, which all default to google and yahoo respectively. I'
by seanalltogether 9y ago
IE and Edge seem to make up about 10% of market share, while the rest goes to chrome, safari and firefox, which all default to google and yahoo respectively. I'm surprised that so many people would be changing their default search engine to make bing that popular.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoBing Rewards pays people to search in the form of Amazon and other gift cards
- Brendinooo 9y agoYeah, a cursory search of my inbox says that Bing Rewards has paid me about $165 in Amazon cards since 2012, and I've got another $20 or so in credit waiting to be redeemed. In a world of "good enough", getting the occasional payout is incentive enough to switch from Google, especially when Firefox makes it so easy to switch engines for a query if the first search doesn't work out.
- semperdark 9y agoThe 33% counts Yahoo, which is powered by Bing.
- cosmie 9y agoYahoo search is basically a white-labeled version of Bing, and has been since 2009[1]. And Siri also uses Bing by default[2]. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8174763.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8174763.stm [2] http://searchengineland.com/apple-makes-bing-the-default-search-engine-for-siri-162736 http://searchengineland.com/apple-makes-bing-the-default-sea...
- Houshalter 9y agoIt's included in Windows search.
- dumbfounder 9y agoThere are 3 types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. The short answer is that they probably aren't. There are a million ways Bing could slice this data to make them appear to have more market share than they have. I imagine Google has a completely different take on Bing's market share, it will be interesting to see if they refute the number.