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Bings' lack of market share compared to Google is not because of any of the reasons listed. It has to do with the perception people have, and the fact that the
by adam419 13y ago
Bings' lack of market share compared to Google is not because of any of the reasons listed.
It has to do with the perception people have, and the fact that they more regularly associate searching the web with Google and "googling it" vs. Bing and "binging it".
At least this is the case for average, non-hacker news people.
Why does Google have this perception? I don't know, but I will guess it likely has to do with it being the one search engine that really caught on and was able to sustain its momentum.
Competing against google would not be done by any of these incremental/less important technical metrics but more having to do with changing the notion of searching the web, and how, in a likely very niched way at first.
- eruditely 13y agoI am not sure if this is true, but your framing of the problem space is good. There should be much more public discussion(maybe there is) about how to achieve this.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoPublic perception is also the reason that Microsoft can't hire machine learning and search quality engineers, because the question "Do you want to work at Microsoft on search quality?" starts with "Do you want to work at Microsoft?" and for many people the answer to that question is "no" regardless of the remainder of the sentence.