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Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to. Rarely does Google have an actual monopoly where new competitors can't ente
by c3534l 8y ago
Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to. Rarely does Google have an actual monopoly where new competitors can't enter the field - in fact, for every Google product I can give you a viable alternative. The only difference is that Google is winning.
- zjaffee 8y agoOutside of search, you should ask why are they winning? Better products don't necessarily have better user numbers due to how much network effects play into a lot of googles products. There's no doubt in my mind that google has been able to leverage their search and advertising businesses, not only as products themselves, but also their knowledge in the space, to push users to, and keep their eyes on said products. If apple and google traded maps products, it's very likely that web and android users would still largely use the google one more often than apple maps is being used now since they have more power to guide you into using the product. The same applies to them advertising chrome when you open up another browser to google.com.
- jhall1468 8y ago> Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to. I don't use it because it isn't better. I'm not going to switch to something of equal value. Make something better and then I'll switch.
- fooker 8y agoBing works fine for a rather narrow subset of queries most people need.