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Linux users prefer Google over Bing
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article published on 22 August, 2009
According to data from Chitika, Linux users vastly prefer the Google search engine over Bing.
The data was compiled from 163 million searches done between July 30th and August 16th.
Despite growing market share, Bing falls flat for Linux users, with Google taking almost 95 percent share. Yahoo is hardly any better. [ read the full article ]
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24. August 2009 @ 13:58 |
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Actually i didnt care so much to even check who wrote the article, now it's 2 staff members with nothing better to do. If you don't want my stupid oponions then you wont get them, i'll just post useless comments nobody cares anything about, exept if it happens to offend someone...
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99% of linux users switched to linux because they hate microsoft...it only makes sence that they prefer to avoid using microsoft's search engine, even if it was as good as google (and it is not).
If thats true, bing being microsofts search engine, then its even less newsworthy that linux users dont use it...
tux is not amused.
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24. August 2009 @ 14:37 |
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Actually i didnt care so much to even check who wrote the article, now it's 2 staff members with nothing better to do. If you don't want my stupid oponions then you wont get them, i'll just post useless comments nobody cares anything about, exept if it happens to offend someone...
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99% of linux users switched to linux because they hate microsoft...it only makes sence that they prefer to avoid using microsoft's search engine, even if it was as good as google (and it is not).
If thats true, bing being microsofts search engine, then its even less newsworthy that linux users dont use it...
Nothing better to do? It's about 17 of us who maintain 8 sites and growing. News is NOT in any way something we like doing, it's just something we offer (at a loss) to users who want to read it, so when people, like you, come along and start moaning about the content, we are well within our rights to ask why the hell you are moaning about something we never asked you to read. Go ahead and moan about the actual "subject matter" all you want, we don't agree with everything we write either, we do it by request and are generally unbiased in how we present it. Some of the stuff that we have to write is so boring and repetitive that we actually argue who will cover it at times... Oh some bittorrent site got shut down huh? Oh Wii won this month again in consoles? Oh Blu-ray sales are up 2% huh? So trust me, we don't write it because we like it, we write it because people read it, judging by stats.
Other than news, AfterDawn's to-do list is EXTREMELY long, has all resources stretched (largely due to some big changes that will happen soon). At aD's main office in Oulu Finland, months worth of work is already allocated and the more that's cleared from the log, the longer it gets.... so when it comes to your "nothing better to do" comment, you have no clue what you are talking about.
Again, just so you understand me, I don't take issue with you arguing against the subject, it's when you go out of your way to try to insult staff who did nothing wrong to you, that's what I take issue with, and usually we just laugh it off and leave it be but every now and then I just have to reply, especially since you contradicted yourself in your own comment, which shows you didn't know anything about the subject matter, you just took an opportunity to take a swipe. But by all means, don't like it, don't read it.
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xnmalletx
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24. August 2009 @ 15:14 |
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Originally posted by DVDBack23:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
Not sure how the numbers are calculated however.
haha! That's what I was thinking!
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24. August 2009 @ 22:37 |
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"Well lets be honest.. I did learn something here.. That there is some thing called "bing" that I have never heard of before and that I have no intention of investigating after reading the few users comments about it's overall naffness...."
I'm a windoze user, and I still had to find out aout it from a TV ad. I figured that microsoft had just ripped of google after finaly realizing that live was a joke, but Bing isn't even as good as live!
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ALIS123
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25. August 2009 @ 03:39 |
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Again, just so you understand me, I don't take issue with you arguing against the subject, it's when you go out of your way to try to insult staff who did nothing wrong to you, that's what I take issue with, and usually we just laugh it off and leave it be but every now and then I just have to reply, especially since you contradicted yourself in your own comment, which shows you didn't know anything about the subject matter, you just took an opportunity to take a swipe. But by all means, don't like it, don't read it.
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This "article" of useless statistics that pretty much everyone allready knows is a total waste of time.
Ask pretty much anyone who uses the internet and they'll tell you google is the most used search engine by everyone with any operatingsystem... So pretty much everyone knows the things said in this article. Probaply even people that dont use internet know google is the most used search engine.
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Sorry man, we didn't realize that "you" would be reading it. Of course, if we knew "you" would be reading it, we wouldn't write it, because the whole site revolves around you and _you_ alone. I mean, when you pretty much "allready" know that Google is bigger than a competing service you _never_ actually even heard of, you are making perfect sense by protesting a news blurb, that you didn't have to read if you didn't want to - or spend extra time writing a comment on - then your logic must be on some higher level that the rest of us just cannot understand.
Please accept my sincere apologies on behalf of our whole staff worldwide for wasting your time, and abetting you to waste your own time not just reading what you already know (yet somehow, never heard of) but also writing a contradictory comment on top of it.
Write something like that and ofc i'll answer it with an insult, pretty minor one at that anyways.
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25. August 2009 @ 03:56 |
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Originally posted by ALIS123:
i'll answer it with an insult, pretty minor one at that anyways.
Erm, you won't. How about you stop being a wind-up merchant eh ?
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25. August 2009 @ 04:06 |
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I would leave him to it.. Not exactly the person to get into a shouting match with really is it?
*sits back and waits for the entertainment to commence*
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25. August 2009 @ 12:26 |
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Ask pretty much anyone who uses the internet and they'll tell you google is the most used search engine by everyone with any operatingsystem... So pretty much everyone knows the things said in this article. Probaply even people that dont use internet know google is the most used search engine.
So that means, since you know everything, that you took time to open this article, read it, and insult the author? (which happens to be me ;)) Seems pretty immature to me...I don't normally open something that EVERYONE knows about, but hey, that's just me.
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