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1) Microsoft had two horses in the race, MSN and Live, both redirecting to Bing now. 2) Microsoft owns the largest botnet in the world; forcing a browser updat
by mahmud 17y ago
1) Microsoft had two horses in the race, MSN and Live, both redirecting to Bing now.
2) Microsoft owns the largest botnet in the world; forcing a browser update and setting the home page to a Bing query is a good way to improve your ranking ;-)
3) I trust "statcounter" as much as I trust Compete, Alexa, and the other user-side traffic analysis and statistics services taken individually. Let's get data from a bunch of them and let's average them out, etc.
- sunkencity 17y agoMicrosoft owns the largest botnet in the world :D
- azharcs 17y agoDefault bing search on IE6 has been resolved on June 3rd, It seems it was a bug and it is fixed now.
- imp 17y agoThat was a convenient "bug."
- vaksel 17y ago4) Microsoft has been spending money on advertising Bing on TV
- sidmitra 17y agoWindows 7 + Bing + Project Natal.... Microsoft is certainly garnering good vibes these days.
- cma 17y agoThe force IE6 Bing homepage redirect (even for google users) gave off distinctly unpleasant vibes.