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Yes, but every search taken on Bing is less money for Google.
by _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
Yes, but every search taken on Bing is less money for Google.
- philipodonnell 9y agoI think the point is that this type of search isn't worth anything to anyone because it can't result in an ad being displayed. It benefits MS because they can talk about big "search" numbers, but no one else cares.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoIf as a Win10 user I'm getting used to searching in the "Start" menu I'm not going to google.com
- jerf 9y agoThe point is that if you're searching for "n", "no", "not", "note", "notep", "notepa" and "notepad" because you typed a bit slowly into your start menu, those 7 searches count for nothing by any useful metric, be it either anything a human was interested in, or anything an advertiser is interested it. Google doesn't lose out a search because typing "notepad" into the Start menu never meant a desire to search the internet in the first place. If Bing is counting those as searches they aren't very "real". I say "if" because I don't have any direct knowledge.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoThe point is that if you're searching for "n", "no", "not", "note", "notep", "notepa" and "notepad" [...] "notepad help" because you typed a bit slowly into your google search field, those 11 searches count for nothing by any useful metric, be it either anything a human was interested in, or anything an advertiser is interested it.
- jerf 9y agoThank you for repeating my point back at me...? I find myself seriously wondering if you're a bot?
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoYou haven't read my comment.
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- RugnirViking 9y agoGoogle doesn't search on every letter you type.