Bing Search Overtakes Yahoo 169
SharkLaser writes "Microsoft's Bing search engine has overtaken Yahoo for the first time. While both Bing, Yahoo and a bunch of meta-search engines like the privacy-oriented DuckDuckGo use Bing's back-end, it clearly shows Yahoo's declining market share. comScore has also released its search data for 2011 — overall, Bing gained 3.1% of market share while Yahoo lost 1.5% and Google lost 0.7%. Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson has lots of work to do."
Wow...That was difficult. [/sarcasm] (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Insightful)
I smell a marketing campaign targeted against Google. Yahoo is powered by Bing. DuckduckGoo also powered by Bing.
I still prefer Google's track record on privacy over MS's or FB's. Not that I'm not worried about privacy, it is getting very difficult to escape the all seeing eyes...
Re:I believe I've also contributed to Bing's rise. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think the distaste is for the technology, although there may be technical reasons. The distaste is for Microsoft's commercial practices.
Re:I believe I've also contributed to Bing's rise. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:4, Insightful)
Anyone who bases a search engines capabilities on contrast of whiteness (?) is either trying to make a joke, or is indeed a fanboy.
Re:Yahoo? (Score:0, Insightful)
Your post is exactly the reason why I hate Slashdot. And it's exactly the reason why I've become a Microsoft fan.
People around here are so hopelessly infected with "Microsoft hatred disease" (as Linus called it) that it has skewed your entire world. None of your technology opinions should be considered reliable or well-informed because according to you, technology doesn't matter. It's all feelings. And your feelings are that no matter what Microsoft does, they're evil. They've always been evil and they always will be evil and you want them destroyed.