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Microsoft Bing competes with Google Search.
by thekyle 6y ago
Microsoft Bing competes with Google Search.
- reidjs 6y agoI have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
- tmk1108 6y agoI'm very far away from that bubble and I have yet to meet anyone who uses Bing either. And I know several people who still use Hotmail/Yahoo.
- vulcan01 6y agoI use Bing... sometimes. They literally give you rewards points (that can be redeemed for Microsoft/Xbox gift cards) for searching. Pretty funny, the lengths they go to get you to use Bing... https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/ https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/
- thekyle 6y agoSeems like Yahoo just uses the Bing API these days. > Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
- sellyme 6y agoGiven that they put it in the same category as Hotmail, I assume that they mean Yahoo Mail, not the search engine.
- thekyle 6y agoI see people recommending DuckDuckGo a lot here which is basically just Bing without personalized results.
- ObsoleteNerd 6y agoI use a mix of Bing and DDG, about 50/50. I also know multiple people who use Bing, mostly people not in tech as it’s just “there” if you use Windows.
- vernie 6y agoBing is unmatched when it comes to searching for porn videos.
- reaperducer 6y agoI have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble You might be surprised what Joe Average uses. I run into people who not only still use MapQuest, but use it as a verb.
- tambeb 6y agoMapQuest directions printed out at home before the trip?
- hajimemash 6y agoYeah, but ppl were using Mapquest for years before Gmaps came out. People were using Google before Bing came out.
- erklik 6y agoInterestingly. There's bound to be more people using Bing in the Silicon Valley bubble than outside it. This is because duckduckgo, the famed privacy focused search engine uses Bing as the back end.