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I'd say this is largely due to the type of searches people are doing, as well as (as some people mentioned) many finding the needed info in the blurb or instant
by jhdavids8 15y ago
I'd say this is largely due to the type of searches people are doing, as well as (as some people mentioned) many finding the needed info in the blurb or instant page of the site. For developers like us, we probably often Google a very difficult programming question. Others Google random questions or phrases as well, hoping Google gives the answer. Often, we don't find what we're looking for, so we don't click on anything. I'd say a large part of those searching in Bing are doing much simpler searches, leading to easier found results. Those who really want to scour the web for a difficult-to-find answer more commonly use Google than Bing, so they more commonly can't find the answer.
- brd 15y agoI agree that the 80/20 rule probably applies to this situation. Novice users (a larger percentage of Bing/Yahoo users) have more simple queries and are more likely to click poor results. Tech Savvy users (which Google owns the lion's share of) will have more queries, more complex queries, will have a better sense of their goal in mind and will iterate queries, and are more likely to leverage search features like definition and calculator queries.
- T-hawk 15y agoAlso, Google is a bigger target than Bing for the content farmers. Bing has fewer gray hats gaming its algorithms, so Bing's results will include a greater proportion of naturally-occurring content and less of ad farms. It's like comparing the security of say Ubuntu and BeOS by the number of vulnerabilities reported. Ubuntu has more, but that's a function of visibility and aggregate effort, not so much the inherent quality of each.