I've noticed on my sites for the last several months that although google is the majority of the natural traffic bing is slowly picking up; currently bing is providing me with about 16% of my organic traffic. Bing is great for new web users, older people and in my opinion has a better 'shopping' experience than google. Bing has also teamed up with mobile phone carrier Verizon for searches on their mobile browser. In the long run, who cares? If you optimize for one search engine (and it's done right) you will be optimizing for all search engines.
From a marketing standpoint, people don't think of "search engines" they think of "Googling it"... How often do people actually say use a search engine?... They say - - "Did you Google it?" - - The public mindset is on Google and changing that will take some marketing muscle and a whole lot of cash.... Ultimately this isn't all about which engine is better, which interface is better, it comes down to marketing and word of mouth usage.....
lol you guys are funny. MS wouldnt commit suicide by doing something as stupid as infecting computers. 16% from Bing is very strange to me. Maybe your demographics leaned towards live/bing. For me, i had less than .5% (thats half a percent) from microsoft. Today its about 3%, not a bad start. Competition is a good thing so hopefully it keeps climbing
Yes they are that stupid. In the 1990s, Microsoft did not publish certain APIs, or gave false documentation about their operation, so 3rd party software written for Windows did not work as well or at all. This is the reason Microsoft, to this day, is under US Federal oversight for anti-trust violation and why their MSDN docs have much more detailed information than in the past. In a way, that would be bad. Microsoft already dominates the desktop. Do you want them to dominate search, too?
I checked my stats and it looks like so for for this month bing has referred about 12% and google about 70%, the site I'm referring to is a niche ecommerce site. Another interesting thing about the visitors to this site show the majority (68%) to be female between 35-49 years old (45% of total visitors). This site is about half a year old. What does this say about Bing? Older Females use it, but they've been converting to customers at an astonishing 72% so I'm not about to complain. @DesignSamples: I agree, it's all about marketing and google seems to have the advantage for the time being with coinage and useage @Chosenlight: Competition is terrific when it comes to the Search Engines, it'll be fun seeing what each other comes out with to spotlight themselves. @drhowarddrfine: No-one is ever going to 'dominate' google, they've already established themselves as the leading SE & there's nothing any one site/competitor can do to make them go away. @Kratos123: Please don't repeat something someone already has said in this thread; contribute something unique and if you can't, don't post at all, we all know you are just trying to raise your post count to add a signature or use the BST, you've been flagged, kbyethx
Bing won't kill Google, they will just take some market share. Google is more geeky but has an extremly strong brand bing will never be (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/whats-the-google-brand-worth-these-days-100-billion/)
even if they did that they would probably be considered a monopoly and get in trouble for it like they did with search engines in europe
they could do that.why can google do it and not MS? google just pays firefox to much for it. having windows block google would be a microsoft killer. they would get a huge fine for breaking anti-trust laws and get sued by google. i wounder why they don't have bing in firefox as a search engine.
Bing will never kill Google. I caused Google always give all for free. But if u using Microsoft, u should spend money.
Really, before we discuss how Bing gonna kill Google, we should discuss if BING can kill Google first.
That's smart, but I doubt they will do that. And 3 days after that someone will release a hack, crack or something, but they users will dissapear like the 40%.
don't see it. V.3.5.2 they don't have everything,Ask for example.to get listed they have to pay for it,other wise the user has to add it.
This is the exact reason why bing can't kill google, people don't want to give bing a chance. The results could be better, but people don't like change and want to stick with google just because they're used to it. Google's results are becoming sloppy - lots of spam is ranking and ranking really well. I'm talking about doorway pages which are on the rise and are killing relevancy - matt cuts even remarked (subtly and veiled) that landing pages are not just on the rise but Google's also having a hard time dealing with it and deciphering what's spam and what isn't.
What I see here is this: Searchers need to find Bing attractive enough, and the way to make that happen is by convincing searchers is Bing is better than Google, and for that to happen, there must be a really motivated team behind it, and the team gets motivation if Bing is able to make money, and Bing is able to make money when advertisers see there are a lot of potential searchers. Its a merry go around, or a catch 22 in a circle perhaps? I used Bing for the first time yesterday, and immediately saw that search snippets are missing - c'mon, every searcher would want to see more of text and less of links on a search result page - or is it just me?