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Bing market share slips in September

article published on 5 October, 2009

According to data from NetApplications, Microsoft's search engine Bing has finally seen its market share slip, after months of slow gains since its launch in June. After growing from zero to 3.52 percent from June through August, share dropped to 3.39 percent in September seemingly showing that Bing's "grand opening" luster is wearing off. Google remained the highly dominant force in ... [ read the full article ]

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cdman2005
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5. October 2009 @ 02:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
bing sucks anyways.

everytime is use it, the results are never what i want.

then i go to google and its usually the first one on the list.
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plazma247
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5. October 2009 @ 05:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
More likely.. 0 percent to 3.52 percent was redirect traffic from live search and resetting peoples home pages with IE8 installs.

Other engine gained popularity through spyware resets of the home page.

Intrestingly... Live messenger has just offered a new update which im sure will give another wave of home page resets to users to claw it back.

lol
xnonsuchx
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5. October 2009 @ 05:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by cdman2005:
bing sucks anyways.

everytime is use it, the results are never what i want.

then i go to google and its usually the first one on the list.

Same here. Even Bing on Microsoft's own support site can't find stuff for dung. I haven't tried using it for shopping/travel-related stuff, though, which is what it tries selling itself on.
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5. October 2009 @ 22:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Now , the comment could have held true for Yahoo and Google back in the day, but in the current world the phrase "I don't know; Google it" actually means something to just about everybody. If you substitute 'Google' with 'Bing,' it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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8. October 2009 @ 09:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Bing's not that bad. That said, I changed my default search to Bing for a few weeks but eventually switched back to Google.

You can't beat Google's quick search results and clean interface.
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