Bing’s Reign As #2 Search Engine Lasted One Day

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/07/quick-peak-bings-reign-as-2-search-engine-lasted-one-day/

by vaksel • 17 years ago

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rw3• 17 years ago

The TC hype machine's two-step pass is operating at full efficiency:

1) Make a dramatic generalization from obviously-inadequate data. 2) Write a followup when better data proves it wrong.

jpd2• 17 years ago

Uhm... where better data is the exact same source as they used before?

rw3• 17 years ago

Better data is over a longer span of time.

erlanger• 17 years ago

Would you prefer that they not report on available data? Everyone knows that it's pop journalism, not a government commission report.

Arrington is closer to the tech Zeitgeist than he gets credit for on this site.

staticshock• 17 years ago

what if the down-trend is as short lived as that initial spike was? nothing has been proven wrong yet (based on your own argument, in fact.) the data isn't "better" yet.

ori_b• 17 years ago

Really, was this unexpected?

This can be summarized as "New search engine gets spike as people try it out of curiosity" -- I'd be surprised if there wasn't a temporary jump in users around launch time.

amichail2• 17 years ago

Is it just me or does Google seem rather quiet about Bing?

It seems that they don't see it as a threat at all.

snprbob86• 17 years ago

What would you expect them to say? Anything they say simply draws attention to a competitor.

amichail2• 17 years ago

Given how much MS will be spending on advertising, everyone will probably know about it anyway.

An obvious thing for Google to say (if true): Google researchers have evaluated Bing results and have found them to be inferior.

TwoBit• 17 years ago

Type "linux" into Google and you get good sensible answers. Type "linux" into Bing and you get something obviously tainted by the marketing department.

Microsoft can't hope to win with this attitude. Nobody is going to use a search engine which can't be trusted.

chadgeidel• 17 years ago

I'm not sure that's the case. Using the "blind comparison" site (linked earlier) I can't immediately distinguish "something obviously tainted by the marketing department"

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=linux

natmaster• 17 years ago

The results for the search 'linux' are nearly identical for the first page. In fact, the first result is exactly the same.

yagiz• 17 years ago

I think he means the auto completion suggestions, not the search results.

blasdel• 17 years ago

While that used to be the case with MSN Search / Live Search, it hasn't been true for a while (at least in the US index).

Bing’s Reign As #2 Search Engine Lasted One Day

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