Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 20:24 UTC
Chances are that you've already heard of and even visited Bing, Microsoft's new search offering
launched earlier in June, replacing the Live search of yesterday. It's
new, shiny, and has pretty pictures, but does it really have much
effect on the market? There have been those headlines claiming it's
"taken a bite out of Google," but, looking
at the statistics, it hasn't really affected the search industry
at all.
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No it hasnt done much yet. But that isnt the point. I dont understand why people dont look at this with great concern. We have the worlds largest OS maker, which surprise surprise, is also the worlds largest browser maker, jumping into a new market. Now where do you think they are going to get that new market dominance from? Well from the fact that Bing will be the default search engine in IE. And of course, they would say that is only natural that they use their search engine in their OS. But what is that going to do to the market? Well most people use IE because its the default. Most people who use IE will use Bing because it will be the default. Microsoft was just complaining to the FTC not too long ago about Google and Yahoo partnering. I wonder how Google feels about Microsoft using Windows and IE to push Bing?