Comments on: Microsoft Bing share vs Google smaller than Safari vs IE

By: How Microsoft Got Bing, And Why It Is Failing to Matter — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:28:06 +0000

[...] Microsoft Bing share vs Google smaller than Safari vs IE Bing: Stick a Fork In It. After so much isolation from real competition, Microsoft is poorly prepared to market Bing against a market leader. It has attempted to tie Bing branding to all of its other products, but as Office and Windows sag in their influence, Microsoft is left with tying Bing into its sadly performing Zune and Windows Mobile devices. [...]

By: The Vista Myth: Why Windows 7 Won’t Turn Microsoft Around — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:27:49 +0000

[...] Microsoft Bing share vs Google smaller than Safari vs IE Apple in the Web Browser Wars: Netscape vs Internet Explorer The ties that bind What else does Microsoft have? A closed server software business in an industry rapidly shifting toward open software. A home entertainment business that has rarely made any money despite billions in investment. Its brightest star is an imitative effort to copy the interactive controller that Nintendo debuted for the Wii back in 2006. When you hear vaporware incantations of “Project Natal,” it means you’ve stumbled into a seance of the faithful trying to reanimate Microsoft’s relevance as the god of imitations. [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:32:38 +0000

Looks to me that the only one hurting from Bing’s existence is Yahoo. Google’s line hasn’t moved.

By: geoffrobinson

geoffrobinson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:40:28 +0000

I think publicly traded companies have a big flaw. You have to keep growing revenue to satisfy shareholders.

Now, I don’t think being publicly traded is all bad. But in cases like Microsoft, where it is fully mature and has little room for natural growth but only decline in market share, they just waste a lot of time and money trying to create new revenue streams.

Economically speaking, they would be better off giving it to the shareholders.

By: enzos

enzos — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:23:22 +0000

A tarted up copy of Google: search, maps, news.. nary an innovation nor improvement to be seen. What a wast of money is Bing. What a waste of space is Microsoft.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:30:47 +0000

Daniel, do you trust Net Applications? I don’t. It appears that Microsoft pays them to jiggle the numbers (and no, I can’t prove this, however if you compare their numbers with everyone else’s they don’t come close).

In which case Bing’s market share may be worse than stated.

I’ve done a lot of testing, Google against Bing, and in my opinion you get far better results from Google. And the Google results appear to be unbiased, if you search certain sensitive terms such as ODF on Bing, you get some really strange results.

By: freeiphone

freeiphone — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:45:51 +0000

The misconception that Bing is a threat to google seems to me to stem from the fact that microsoft have spent millions on advertising. Every other internet site or blog has something nice to say about bing, and it is because of this that people are taking look, and getting the idea in their heads that google has some real competition. But if you think about this, google has not even responded with its own advertising campaign – because it doesn’t need to, and yet it is still the preferred search engine. I won’t be changing to bing – why should I? It doesn’t affer any advantage over what I know and trust.

By: bartfat

bartfat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:49:59 +0000

@benlewis

the way i see it, is that if they’re offering free money for you to use their service and you think it’s a good benefit, sure, use it. and about the search stats, actually most of the searches don’t start out shopping-related, so the cashback won’t even apply there, so you’re not inflating their search figures much by simply taking advantage of their cashback :)

By: Bing’s share of search less than Safari’s share in browsers « Io mangio la mela

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:45:22 +0000

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By: Get Macs / MacBooks / MacBook Pros for cheaper when you use Microsoft’s cashback program via Bing « David Chin Online

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:11:14 +0000

[...] Get Macs / MacBooks / MacBook Pros for cheaper when you use Microsoft’s cashback program via B… – bartfat, in a comment to the article: Well, the only thing i use Bing for is the cashback, where they pay up to 20% of the cost of buying whatever retailer they support and you go to. They do get your email, but honestly, this is why so many people were abusing the Live Search cashback on eBay to buy Macbooks with (at the time) 30% cashback. To think that cashback would work to inflate their search market standing was ludicrous, but thank you Microsoft for the free $250 from the cashback! hmm, I wonder why Macs got a sudden boost in market share last year… ← Older Posts | [...]