More people than you might think use Bing

[SansVarnic]

Admittedly I use Bing but that is because I have found that Bing has been more consistent with search results than Google for me.

I use Chrome at work and Bing at home and over the last 2 years I have switched favor to Bing over Chrome. The interface more to my liking as well.

Yes Bing still lacks in a select few areas but head to head Bing gets my vote at this point in the game.

[Rune]

Let me Bing that for you.

[Ryujin2003]

8 hours ago, Lurick said:

So all the old people who don't know better or care?

No, the old folk still use AOL.

[Drak3]

14 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

No, the old folk still use AOL.

Or Google if their kids/grandkids set them up with Chrome, and Yahoo if they were set up with Firefox.

[AlTech]

7 hours ago, manikyath said:

so.. in the struggles of getting approx. 170 desktops on the creators update.. i guess a random reset of default apps, and excessive edge pushing does the job..

6 hours ago, dexT said:

Where do they get the numbers from? People that left data telemetry on? From an ad service people clicked on?

6 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

If any one uses bing at all it is because it is the default search engine on Edge and a ton of people are clueless on how to change it.

7 hours ago, mynameisjuan said:

So 25% of people never find what they are looking for? Thats too bad.

8 hours ago, Lurick said:

So all the old people who don't know better or care?

7 hours ago, Prysin said:

let me guess, they probably use it to search for chrome or firefox download upon fresh installs

8 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Yeah well that's what happens when people who don't care just use Edge and the default search engine known as Bing when they get a new PC or are forced into upgrading...

You don't need to insult the intelligence of people who use a competitor to Google.

 

DuckDuckGo uses Bing.

Siri uses Bing.

Cortana uses Bing.

Yahoo uses Bing.

Spotlight Search in Mac probably uses Bing.

Windows Search uses Bing.

 

Competition is good for this industry. I would argue that we don't have enough competition.

 

Bing is perfectly fine search engine.  It may not produce entirely the same results as Google but that's because not as many people use Bing and thus Bing takes longer to get better as search engines get better with every single search.

 

And by the way, Google always screws up my language. I use English and not Mandarin or Cantonese. Also, Google actually spies on you more than Bing does as you'll see by Privacy Badger in the screenshots.

Spoiler

Ok, so Google was slightly better.

 

I'd say this is a tie.

 

Also like Bing's results more in this case.

 

In this case I like Bing's results more.

 

6 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

Well, I exclusively use bing and edge... and TBH it's not bad. results are generally the same, but bing gives me money to search, and so does edge.
plus, I find edge to be faster, with a cleaner UI, and it doesn't take as much RAM.

 

on my phone, I use google, since it's integrated with android much better.

 

BTW: did you know that siri looks stuff up with bing?

My only issue with Edge, other than falling behind in some Web Standards and the UI being janky is the amount of vulnerabilities and bugs it has.

 

Bing is actually pretty good imho. It forces people to be very specific for what they want which helps . Also, Google sometimes provides me with results I didn't like.

 

7 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Globally, Bing has 3% market share, with Google taking the mass majority of it.

I think it is great news. Competition is always welcomed.

Unfortunately most people don't see it that way. They think that we need a monopolistic environment where Google Overlords rule our lives.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, AluminiumTech said:

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Where did I say any thing against competition? for all I care there could be dozens, I'm no fan of Google monopoly especially when they screwed up over YouTube.

 

It does not change my opinion that at least a considerable amount of those % is from that kind of silliness.

[Tsuki]

what they arent telling you, is that every single one of those searches is "google.com"

[Tsuki]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

DuckDuckGo uses Bing.
Siri uses Bing.
Cortana uses Bing.
Yahoo uses Bing.
Spotlight Search in Mac probably uses Bing.
Windows Search uses Bing.

duckduckgo is an aggregate search that can get results from bing, but not exclusively.

OSX yosemite spotlight and IOS 8 both use bing, however google remains the default search engine in safari.

Yahoo is powered by bing, however there is a global 10% variance in search results between the two.

and of course cortana and windows search uses bing.

 

 

your not wrong, just thought i'd add some specifics.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

You don't need to insult the intelligence of people who use a competitor to Google.

Oh god this gave me a good laugh. Where in the actual hell do you get "insulting intelligence" out of this?

 

9 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Yeah well that's what happens when people who don't care just use Edge and the default search engine known as Bing when they get a new PC or are forced into upgrading...

[dexT]

3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

-confetti-

Where are the numbers from??? You quoted, I came.

 

And F Google. They can suck the big one.

[Brooksie359]

Tried Bing a couple of times and it just plain didn't work so I went back to Google. I know people are saying that Bing is better but from my experience I find that hard to believe.

[Centurius]

See: demographic crisis

[Misanthrope]

Is the start menu search = bing confirmed? I've been using it quite a bit, feels faster than manually scrolling.

[Wix]

15 hours ago, Drak3 said:

Things changed in recent years. Personally, Bing finds exactly what I want, within the first 3 entries on the first page, more than 90% of the timd. Google might find it 75% of the time, and less than 50% of the time is it on the first page.

I'll take Bing over Google any day.

 

 

Nice try, Microsoft employee #258.

[suicidalfranco]

google's first result solved my issue. Google still the one with better result, thought due to google's political propaganda still gonna keep using duckduckgo as my main search engine

[Drak3]

2 hours ago, Wix said:

 

Nice try, Microsoft employee #258.

Nice joke, Jerry #7522.

[Technomancer__]

20 hours ago, mynameisjuan said:

So 25% of people never find what they are looking for? Thats too bad.

*in the uk

[Technomancer__]

19 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

 bing gives me money to search, and so does edge.

 

?

[Sakkura]

19 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Globally, Bing has 3% market share, with Google taking the mass majority of it.

I think it is great news. Competition is always welcomed.

Microsoft's numbers are claiming a 9% global market share.

 

Your figure matches better with what independent sources say. According to Statcounter, Google has 92.02% of global market share, Bing has 2.55%, Yahoo has 2.23%, and Baidu has 1.44%.

 

Microsoft also claims a 33% market share in the US. Statcounter has them at 6.5%.

[Bouzoo]

20 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Globally, Bing has 3% market share, with Google taking the mass majority of it.

From source:

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Globally, the company is claiming a 9-percent market share.

 

[porina]

23 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Microsoft also claims a 33% market share in the US. Statcounter has them at 6.5%.

Bing was counting searches. That could be very different than an estimated number of users, if Bing users for whatever reason do a relatively bigger number than with Google.

[Ezio Auditore]

Do google and/or MS make money off their respective browsers? If so, how?

I know search engines do but is that money much more than google gets for google ads?

Also how much part of MS's revenue does bing comprise of? 

[Ezio Auditore]

I guess mostly people use google more than bing because bing was bad at a time and although now it is competent it has nothing more to offer than google and so naturally people use google cause they are comfortable with it.

Also bing images is really bad of you're looking for specific things.

[RadiatingLight]

4 hours ago, Ethocreeper said:

?

It's called Microsoft rewards.

every two searches give you a 1 cent. every hour of using edge gives you 1 cent per hour.

that adds up pretty quick actually. I end up getting a $5 amazon gift card almost every month.

[Technomancer__]

6 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

It's called Microsoft rewards.

every two searches give you a 1 cent. every hour of using edge gives you 1 cent per hour.

that adds up pretty quick actually. I end up getting a $5 amazon gift card almost every month.

Googled it and its available on USA only...