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Bing manages to hold onto its initial explosion of growth
While Google is gearing up to take on Microsoft Windows with Chrome, Bing is still nibbling away at the monopoly-strong search engine's tail. StatCounter Global Stats, a web tracking firm, has marked Bing down as securing more searches than Yahoo in the first eight days of June and being on the rise since its unveiling on June 3rd. The firm says it's normal for a search engine to explode in popularity early on — remember Cuil? — but Bing has held onto that initial interest and is showing growth.
StatCounter measures search engine use based on how many times users click results rather than the number of results found, and it's pegged Bing as having increased Microsoft's search engine market share by 1%. Not too shabby considering the fledgling service is trying to make it in a world where Google has become a verb unto itself.
So, we have to ask: Do you Bing?
Via New York Times
By musicalmind at 3:45 PM ON 07/13/09
I bing! I find it more efficient and useful than google. It seems to me that Google needs to step it up in terms of its search engine. I know they can do it, so why haven't they?
By ghosttie at 4:03 PM ON 07/13/09
No.
By Kitten at 4:21 PM ON 07/13/09
I like Bing's layout. It seems to be a bit back-and-forth as to who gets the better search results between the two, but I just love the fact that Bing scoots the sidebar to the left, making the search results more centered (as they should be).
Call me shallow, but I pick Bing for looks.
By Old Man Dotes at 4:37 PM ON 07/13/09
Bing is not suited for business users. The ads clutter the front page and the results tend towards pushing the user to Microsoft's business partners.
In any case, it's way too early to say if Bing has any market share at all; it has replaced Live Search, but the difference in numbers is well within the range of sampling error. It will take several years of measurement to determine if Bing has legs, or if it's just MSN Live Search rebranded.
By Mihos at 4:52 PM ON 07/13/09
I wonder how much of has to do with it openening ever fricken time you open a browser in IE on a second tab.... annoying as hell since when you close explorer, it makes you confirm you want to close the extra "tab" you didn't open in the first place.
Sorry, I have to hate it.
By Mihos at 4:54 PM ON 07/13/09
And I know how to disable it.. its just getting old having to tell people how to...
By RonB at 4:56 PM ON 07/13/09
Nope. Looked at the Bing site one time. I use Google because I'm more interested in substance. Bing is hype.
By Google fan at 6:09 PM ON 07/13/09
I've mentioned it before as a tip, but I think it's hilarious that bing won't let ya find google (click the url for my name...), you get an error instead. Or, search for "search engines" (http://www.bing.com/search?q=search+engines&form=QBLH), and you'll see that bing (currently - maybe it'll change?) doesn't provide google as a first page choice.
If bing folks didn't feel threatened by google, then why not allow google in the search results?
way to be biased, ms...
By Google fan at 6:19 PM ON 07/13/09
Huh. The url in the name doesn't show up. This was the screenshot: http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k18/1HERO/NoGoogleForBing.png
Kinda funny when ya see bing even provide a drop down auto-complete suggestion for google...
By Google fan at 6:23 PM ON 07/13/09
Screenshot of the auto-complete suggestions bing gives for "google", even though it won't get you to google...
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8017/bingdropdownforgoogle.png
By Kevin Hall at 6:44 PM ON 07/13/09
@Google fan
I may be reading what you're saying wrong, but when I search for Google on Bing it shows up just fine and let's me click over.
You're right though - when I just searched for "search engine," Google isn't on Bing's first page (or vice versa). Then again, that doesn't seem like something too many people would search, besides, and they both give similar results to the search.
By JP at 8:27 PM ON 07/13/09
I HATE BING!!!!!!!!!!!
By murc at 12:32 AM ON 07/14/09
bing has become my second place search engine.
I still use google as my main one, but I do use bing, it works good, organized good...and I like the new picture everyday on its homepage 'thing'.
Its deffiniatly MS's best one yet...although their past ones have...well, Sucked.
By Mosrhun at 9:06 AM ON 07/14/09
First Livesearch, now Bing. Google will never be beaten by a crappy ass bloated search engine. The thing that makes Google so useful is that it's plain. Do you need to load graphics just to type in a search box? No. All you need it plain HTML and an input box. Not horribly rendered jpegs.
By Google fan at 12:44 PM ON 07/14/09
@Kevin Hall-
That's so odd! I can type "google" in to the bing search box, whether it's at bing's main site, or even in one of bing's swf ads, like the following one (http://snurl.com/Bing_Ad), and when I click to search, I either get some error message, or the "HTTP 400 Bad Request" message, which I screencapped. And that happens at two different locations (physically and IP address-wise) where I can access the internet.
Maybe bing just doesn't want me (in particular) to get to google?!? :D
By Google fan at 12:49 PM ON 07/14/09
@ Kevin Hall -
That's different. I can access the internet from at least different locations (physical and IP address locations), and whenever I use bing to search for google (even from this swf ad: http://snurl.com/Bing_Ad), I get an error or the "HTTP 400 Bad Request" message.
Maybe bing just doesn't want moi to get to google?!? :D
By Ack at 12:53 PM ON 07/14/09
Just a triple post to say that I clicked away to another tab after submitting the first reply (at 12:44), and when I came back, I didn't see any indication that the comment was received. So then I typed something again.
Yippee.
By xzach_attackx at 3:55 AM ON 07/17/09
i've tried it a few times. it's equal to or less than google in performance. i still prefer google.
i don't know what this "decision engine" bullcrap is...
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