"The Bing Thing" has 16% of search market in USA within 5 days!

[Q]

Originally Posted by ViN86

Meh, still prefer google. I love my iGoogle home page.

I did until they broke the Gmail gadget a month or two ago if you force HTTPS in Gmail.

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by Q

I did until they broke the Gmail gadget a month or two ago if you force HTTPS in Gmail.

I don't keep anything sensitive in it, so I don't bother with HTTPS.

[thefirstm]

Microsoft already has such a high market share with so many things. They just need to keep there hands off the search market. As for bing, a Pig (Windows Live Search) with lipstick is still a Pig.

(This coming from a Linux user...)

[saturnotaku]

Originally Posted by thefirstm

(This coming from a Linux user...)

You must be lost. Your forum is over here.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=13

[Zelda_fan]

You do understand that most of that 16% was probably from Windows Live search.

[Mr. Hunt]

Just tried Bing finally so I can finally bash it. Why is this garnering any attention? It is google, only not as good and it came out later. Why switch from googling to this? The answer is there is no reason.

[Sazar]

Originally Posted by Mr. Hunt

Just tried Bing finally so I can finally bash it. Why is this garnering any attention? It is google, only not as good and it came out later. Why switch from googling to this? The answer is there is no reason.

You fail @ logic.

It has many features that Google does not and it has improved upon Google's model.

Your argument could have been used when Yahoo was top dog or Lycos or Alta-Vista or whatever.

Google has implemented a lot of small changes over the past few weeks in its UI, probably a direct result of Bing's differences.

Fwiw, I am using the search engines on a 50/50 basis to get a good feel and see if they are pushing each other and also because they do provide alternate results sometimes

The video preview feature of Bing is AWESOME. I've found so many family guy clips and robot chicken and so forth that it took a lot longer on Google to find

[glObalist]

Originally Posted by einstein_314

I think saying it has 16% of the market is a bit premature....I mean I'm sure there are tons (myself included) who have switched to it to try it out. Give a month then say what the market share is. I've already switched back to google.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_en...90529-20090624

After the initial rush, Bing took a dive just as expected and is back to where it belongs, what with its cheesy bacground pictures and igoogle.com as my homepage.