OSNews > Thread > "RE: not yet" by lqsh

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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RE: not yet

by lqsh on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 21:42 UTC in reply to "not yet"

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2007-01-01

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.

I'd say that most users (even non-geeks) would say, "How to I get to Google so I can search", not just start using Bing.

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RE[2]: not yet

by Bobthearch on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 21:58 in reply to "RE: not yet"

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2006-01-27

That's exactly right. "Where's Google?" And two seconds later, "Oh, there it is."

I've been less-than-impressed with each of Microsoft's online efforts to date. Maybe I'll try "Bing" just to check it out, but most likely I won't bother.

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