Bing Gains 10% Marketshare 514
Posted
by
CmdrTaco
from the nowhere-to-go-but-up dept.
from the nowhere-to-go-but-up dept.
samzbest writes "According to ComScore's qSearch, Microsoft's retaliation against Google search, Bing, has gained significant market share, now facilitating close to 10% of US searches. That's a gain of two large points in five months."
Re:Who would've though? (Score:4, Funny)
I said the same thing about "Slashdot" ;)
Re:Who would've though? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who would've though? (Score:3, Funny)
Phil: Ned Ryerson?
Ned: Bing!
Phil: Bing.
Re:Bigger marketshare than desktop Linux (Score:4, Funny)
Invisible to writers of malware?
Re:Who would've though? (Score:4, Funny)
It even works as verb: Keep binging that chicken! [bing.com]
Mod parent up or I curse thee (Score:4, Funny)
These increases are very likely to correlate (causally, no less!) to Infection Explorer 8 being pushed hard, leveraging the majority number of computers that have M-Windows installed.
Capitalism is about having or obtaining a large quantity of something at price P, "talking it up" through Marketing or other bovine excrement until people want it, and then setting new price NP > P when they come asking for it.
Or, in clearer Slashdot format:
1) Have a large install base.
2) Push your browser hard onto the install base and set the default page to Bing (just as Google arranged with Mozilla).
3) ???? (bovine excrement)
4) PROFIT!!!
Re:Who would've though? (Score:2, Funny)
This is not offtopic.
Btw Ned, can you take the day off?
Re:Who would've though? (Score:5, Funny)
Plus, it is a recursive acronym. BING: Bing Is Not Google.
Re:Mod parent up or I curse thee (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bigger marketshare than desktop Linux (Score:5, Funny)
can I get this analogy in a term I can understand? Like perhaps Cars per Library of Congress?
Re:Is it trickery? (Score:2, Funny)
I imagine you having a bar code of your google ID tattooed to your forehead.
Re:The Deal Seekers Are Probably Partly Responsibl (Score:4, Funny)
Funny story on this one. I was talking to someone about Bing Cashback and so he went to bing and tried to navigate the site and find information about the cashback program. However, he couldn't find anything. We tried using the search and the site navigation, and it was nowhere. I knew I had seen the main cashback page, and simply said to just Google it instead. So, yes that's right, he had to Google Bing (and it was the very first result). I think that is an indication of a search engine failing when you have to use another search to even find it.
Re:Who would've though? (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft Active Live Artificially Intelligent Search Engine
Except 1) It's not artificially intelligent and 2) that would mean it was called Microsoft Malaise...
Re:Is it trickery? (Score:5, Funny)
People who dress up little dogs in funny outfits. Definitely.
Re:What the...seriously? (Score:1, Funny)
I use Bing when I don't want anyone to know what I am searching for. When I need a Hello Kitty Vibrator, I just look it up on Bing, Google doesn't need to know that about me.
Re:Being the new default doesn't hurt either (Score:2, Funny)
This is because _GOOGLE_ doesn't want you using IE8 to browse their results...
Re:Who would've though? (Score:3, Funny)
While they are doing that, they ought to rename the parent company: Microsoft Is Not Google Either, or MINGE.