Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37% 366
suraj.sun writes "Bing overtook Yahoo for the first time worldwide in January, and increased its lead in February, according to web analytics company, StatCounter. Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that globally Bing reached 4.37%, in February ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93%. Both trail far behind Google's 89.94% of the global search engine market." Just a little more plagiarizing to go!
How many by choice? (Score:5, Insightful)
Overtook? (Score:5, Insightful)
Overtook? Really? Why do we have editors? Why not just vote on the news items that get posted, since the editors apparently are incapable of doing their job. On top of that, the whole first sentence is a complete mess, not to mention the rest of the summary. Did a 5th grader write it?
Maybe the submitter should have plagiarized someone competent in grammar and spelling.
Yahoo = Bing (Score:5, Insightful)
wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Excellent! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Excellent! (Score:3, Insightful)
They are a near-monopoly. Erecting barriers to entry isn't a sign of a monopoly either, it's a sign of a monopoly that is unfairly using its position/power. (In fact, in most of the western world, anti-monopoly legislation doesn't prevent monopolies, it only prevents them from misusing their monopolistic power.)
But regardless, it's the lack of a better (or comparable and competing) search engine that I lament.
The Irony (Score:4, Insightful)
No thanks.
Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Insightful)
No, it's not. Google has not engaged in any anticompetitive practices to hold on to that market share. Being successful simply because you're good at what you do is not a crime. Microsofts agreements with OEMs, other software makers and Intel were used to make it impossible for other OS makers to compete. It would be like if Google created a new standard called norobotsexceptgoogles.txt and lowered the page rank of any sites that didn't refuse to be crawled by anyone but google.
Re:Excellent! (Score:1, Insightful)
being a monopoly has nothing to do with market practices. Those are "monopoly abuse". You can be "successful simply because you're good at what you do" and still be a monopoly.
Pyrrhic Victory (Score:5, Insightful)
How many tens of millions of dollars in development hours and PR efforts has this cost them? And for what? To say they are a bit better than Yahoo which is quite literally a zombie?
Once again, Microsoft makes much hyperbole about obtaining dominance, rolls out it's big new weapon of terror, fires it's salvo and calls it a victory when it manages to only barely scratch the armor of it's target.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Re:Google Web == MS Desktop (Score:3, Insightful)