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I've been trying out Bing for a month now and it's pretty much equivalent to Google for me. I search less and less on search engines already and what I do searc

by IBM 13y ago

I've been trying out Bing for a month now and it's pretty much equivalent to Google for me. I search less and less on search engines already and what I do search for, Bing has been able to deliver. The only thing that made the transition difficult at first was the UI of the search pages on desktop. For mobile that won't really be an issue and I think Apple could easily default to Bing. Losing iOS users to Bing/Yahoo would be terrible for Google just because of the demographics of iOS users. The Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android, and that probably hasn't changed much. Google is already experiencing margin compression because of the broader shift to computing on mobile devices, losing the most valuable users would only accelerate that.

Oletros 13y ago
> The Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android Oracle trial didn't show that, that was made up figures And, by the way, perhaps Bing is good in USA, but here in Europe is really bad compared to Google search
- IBM 13y ago
  The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/google-earns-more-iphone-android http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/google-ear...
  - Oletros 13y ago
    Those figures are made up, they don't have anything to do with how much Google earned from iOS or from Android and they aare explained [1] [1] http://marketingland.com/no-google-doesnt-make-four-times-more-off-the-iphone-vs-android-9017 http://marketingland.com/no-google-doesnt-make-four-times-mo...
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    - Oletros 13y ago
      > The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial Then you can link to that settlement and to those figures. Until then, those figures where made up without any basis
      - Oletros 13y ago
        It is funny how people downvote facts
    - IBM 13y ago
      >The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial. We have different definitions of what "made up" is. The estimate The Guardian made was based on the court document which is linked to in the article.
      - Oletros 13y ago
        Wrong, The Guardian couldn't estimate anything because the court documents didn't were about what The Guardian made up. Past damages were not a royalty percentage, 2.5 billion were not mobile revenue. So, they made up their figures with wrong assumptions, wrong revenues and wrong damages
josephlord 13y ago
"Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android, and that probably hasn't changed much." I think those figures included maps revenue and were also from a time when Android devices were a smaller proportion of the smartphone market and the devices and OS much less good than recent ones so I suspect that they were used online much less. I strongly suspect that the situation has changed dramatically in that time.

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Oletros 13y ago

> The Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android Oracle trial didn't show that, that was made up figures And, by the way, perhaps Bing is good in USA, but here in Europe is really bad compared to Google search

IBM 13y ago
The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/google-earns-more-iphone-android http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/google-ear...
- Oletros 13y ago
  Those figures are made up, they don't have anything to do with how much Google earned from iOS or from Android and they aare explained [1] [1] http://marketingland.com/no-google-doesnt-make-four-times-more-off-the-iphone-vs-android-9017 http://marketingland.com/no-google-doesnt-make-four-times-mo...
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  - Oletros 13y ago
    > The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial Then you can link to that settlement and to those figures. Until then, those figures where made up without any basis
    - Oletros 13y ago
      It is funny how people downvote facts
  - IBM 13y ago
    >The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial. We have different definitions of what "made up" is. The estimate The Guardian made was based on the court document which is linked to in the article.
    - Oletros 13y ago
      Wrong, The Guardian couldn't estimate anything because the court documents didn't were about what The Guardian made up. Past damages were not a royalty percentage, 2.5 billion were not mobile revenue. So, they made up their figures with wrong assumptions, wrong revenues and wrong damages

josephlord 13y ago

"Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android, and that probably hasn't changed much." I think those figures included maps revenue and were also from a time when Android devices were a smaller proportion of the smartphone market and the devices and OS much less good than recent ones so I suspect that they were used online much less. I strongly suspect that the situation has changed dramatically in that time.