“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/bing-is-bigger-than-you-think-microsoft-boasts-at-33-of-us-searches/

by kartD • 9 years ago

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Bitto• 9 years ago

Half of it might be "Google"

gumby• 9 years ago

In case someone down votes this because it looks like a stupid sarcastic throwaway: it's in fact quite likely.

Many people are unclear about how the input fields work and do type URLs or the names of sites into search pages, with google being the most common!

tehlike• 9 years ago

Quite likely. Even on chrome, people tend to type google which by default searched google on google :)

squarefoot• 9 years ago

Totally true. Nearly all non techies I know use the address bar as a search bar, and once they reach Google in some way, they type the desired site name (not the URL) and click the first result in the list, which hopefully is what they wanted. I find this frustrating, but stopped any attempt to educate them to a correct use of browsers and search engines because there is simply no hope.

cjnicholls• 9 years ago

Doesn't mention growth driven by Edge and Windows 10?

evilduck• 9 years ago

iOS also uses it by default for Spotlight searches.

ryanx435• 9 years ago

Bing also has better results for coding. And it's image search is great because it gives you a few closely related phrases for you to explore.

GoToRO• 9 years ago

Great to hear it. Now only if they made a light weight homepage. Ditch the photo or lazy load it. And there is another problem: the homepage is mostly black. If I hit search it changes to an all white page. That really hurts my eyes.

SolCitizen• 9 years ago

You can change the theme at DuckDuckGo

Jyaif• 9 years ago

Don't tell the european union.

swamp40• 9 years ago

It's ridiculously entangled into Windows 10 in half a dozen ways.

Even if you switch over to Google for the browser default, you still get Bing on the Windows Start menu, Cortana, etc.

The settings and options are a labyrinth specifically designed to keep a normal person from getting rid of it.

josephjrobison• 9 years ago

These numbers are a bit murky. Any website owner looking at real numbers sees way, way less from Bing. Perhaps comparing true search apples to apples would help.

halfnibble• 9 years ago

At least some of that growth is people jumping off the "Goolag."

good_vibes• 9 years ago

I'd like to know how many of those people are those who use Internet Explorer, have AOL emails, and remember life before cell phones.

matt_wulfeck2• 9 years ago

They wouldn't have to prove anything with messaging like his if their search engine was really bigger than we think: they would post search profits that could come even a few miles close to Google. Let's take a look:

Bing: $2B
Google: $24B

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/searchengineland.com/google-searc...

ForRealsies• 9 years ago

That is bigger than I thought tho.

matt_wulfeck2• 9 years ago

Just to prove a point here that these "33%" numbers don't make sense. They claim 33% of the search pie but less than 10% of the profits.

MarkMc• 9 years ago

If Bing had to pay Microsoft to be the default search engine on Windows then it's profit might be $0

rednerrus• 9 years ago

Are there really this many porn searches?

nickthemagicman• 9 years ago

Lol that video preview is the best.

“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

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