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Since 2009, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing and is losing $1 billion every quarter. How is this even possible and how is buying Yahoo going to plug the

by clobber 15y ago

Since 2009, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing and is losing $1 billion every quarter. How is this even possible and how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes? Bing search is horrible and their adcenter product is even worse.

boyter 15y ago
I'll agree with the adcenter, but Bing itself is a perfectly fine search engine. I consider it a drop in replacement for Google these days. Yes i'm sure someone is now scrambling to find some edge case where Google is better, but you can do the same thing with Bing, and frankly all search engines have issues somewhere. I use a few search engines which have their own index such as DDG, Gigablast and Blekko. I really find it amazing that people aren't cheering on some competition in the space. If Bing folded we would only have 3 players with their own index (that im aware of). Purely subjective but I find Bings results page much clearer then Googles these days.
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- clobber 15y ago
  Agree with you on the results pages. I've found that Google's become much more cluttered since the "instant results" redesign and add in of the Google+ and preview buttons. I feel like the page even seems clunkier. Regarding quality of results though, wasn't Google accusing Bing of directly copying search results somehow?
  - boyter 15y ago
    That was a red herring. It was the Bing toolbar watching what users were clicking on. So it picked up Google's results, but also everything else people were clicking on. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Chrome does the same thing.
sixtofour 15y ago
"how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes?" Volume.
rgrove 15y ago
For one thing, Yahoo! Search makes money.
medinism 15y ago
The CPM Yahoo gets are about 10x Microsoft gest on any of its MSN properties. They would be buying high CPMs and plug a HUGE hole in their online biz P&L

by clobber 15y ago

boyter 15y ago

I'll agree with the adcenter, but Bing itself is a perfectly fine search engine. I consider it a drop in replacement for Google these days. Yes i'm sure someone is now scrambling to find some edge case where Google is better, but you can do the same thing with Bing, and frankly all search engines have issues somewhere. I use a few search engines which have their own index such as DDG, Gigablast and Blekko. I really find it amazing that people aren't cheering on some competition in the space. If Bing folded we would only have 3 players with their own index (that im aware of). Purely subjective but I find Bings results page much clearer then Googles these days.

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clobber 15y ago
Agree with you on the results pages. I've found that Google's become much more cluttered since the "instant results" redesign and add in of the Google+ and preview buttons. I feel like the page even seems clunkier. Regarding quality of results though, wasn't Google accusing Bing of directly copying search results somehow?
- boyter 15y ago
  That was a red herring. It was the Bing toolbar watching what users were clicking on. So it picked up Google's results, but also everything else people were clicking on. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Chrome does the same thing.

sixtofour 15y ago

"how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes?" Volume.

rgrove 15y ago

For one thing, Yahoo! Search makes money.

medinism 15y ago

The CPM Yahoo gets are about 10x Microsoft gest on any of its MSN properties. They would be buying high CPMs and plug a HUGE hole in their online biz P&L