Bing is bleeding Microsoft of $1 billion per quarter - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Zanfall;32395369]It is good, but the problem is Google doesn't know how to attract people to it and I think they might have missed their chance when it was getting a lot of publicity.[/QUOTE] I didn't even know what it was until recently. Google Plus just doesn't describe what it is.

I have a RSS feed of their background images that change each day because they're pretty. But that's it.

[QUOTE=faze;32396414]Remember the paper clip from MS Office?[/QUOTE] I still regularly see computers with that

Could Bing BE any more useless?

[QUOTE=faze;32395234]Yeah, Facebook seems to be their only holdup.[/QUOTE] Describing the second-largest website in the world with two-thirds of the US population and similar proportions in several other countries signed up as "their only holdup" might be understating the challenge a bit :v:

I just don't see how any search engine thinks it can compete. The Google bandwagon is just to strong and gargantuan to chip away at.

silly microsoft

[QUOTE=Zanfall;32395094]Yes. Because Google has never had a product flop before. Oh wait. Google Wave. Google Lively. Google Buzz. Google Video. Probably Google Plus soon. I could go on, but Google's way of doing invite only bullshit is hurting their success rate with most of their social media attempts. It actually killed Google Wave. When you're trying to build a protocol to replace e-mail, don't have a limited invite only beta.[/QUOTE] I still use Google Video because it pulls videos from literally everywhere and it's good for finding freaky niche porn

The only time I ever used bing was to search for google.

[QUOTE=Tacosheller;32397335]I still use Google Video because it pulls videos from literally everywhere and it's good for finding freaky niche porn[/QUOTE] I was talking the other Google Video. Google's video upload site from before they bought YouTube.

Bing isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I never understood why. It seems just because one is Google and the other is Microsoft that instantly makes the Microsoft side bad. A lot of new features that were introduced first in Bing are now in Google. Bing's search results are almost identical to Google's with the exception of order and a few entries. And no Bing didn't "steal" results like that BS that was reported earlier this year. While Bing is doing poorly in share/usage, they're really doing new things over there that haven't been done before which is a good thing. It adds competition which makes Google better.

Only reason i use bing at all ever is because it's forced to be used on windows phones, along with internet exploder. Why doesn't microsoft see no one ever [I]ever[/I] uses them if they have the option for something better (Firefox, Google... pretty much everything). Internet explorer is the biggest sack of shit ever and every copy of windows in the future should come with firefox at [I]least[/I] instead of IE.

[QUOTE=MightyMax;32397813]Only reason i use bing at all ever is because it's forced to be used on windows phones, along with internet exploder. Why doesn't microsoft see no one ever [I]ever[/I] uses them if they have the option for something better (Firefox, Google... pretty much everything). Internet explorer is the biggest sack of shit ever and every copy of windows in the future should come with firefox at [I]least[/I] instead of IE.[/QUOTE] Windows Phone doesn't come with IE6.

[QUOTE=Panda X;32397858]Windows Phone doesn't come with IE6.[/QUOTE]uh. okay. It still comes with internet exploder and there is no way to get around that.

I use bing with my windows phone, it ahs great features built natively like bing vision (bing version of google goggles) music identification and voice search. Works pretty great. But for desktop I use google. [QUOTE=MightyMax;32397983]uh. okay. It still comes with internet exploder and there is no way to get around that.[/QUOTE] I still don't know what is SO bad about internet explorer 9. Jesus, have you even tried it on the PC? I use chrome and doubt I'll switch explorers, but you have to give Microsoft recognition for all the good work they made in IE9. I really don't have any complain about it on my phone.

[QUOTE=Panda X;32397561]Bing isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I never understood why. It seems just because one is Google and the other is Microsoft that instantly makes the Microsoft side bad. A lot of new features that were introduced first in Bing are now in Google. Bing's search results are almost identical to Google's with the exception of order and a few entries. And no Bing didn't "steal" results like that BS that was reported earlier this year. While Bing is doing poorly in share/usage, they're really doing new things over there that haven't been done before which is a good thing. It adds competition which makes Google better.[/QUOTE] Do you have proof that Bing didn't steal search results? I recall Google making a random group of letters go to some random page. I don't really get how that could be misinterpreted unless Google lied.

I prefer google as it's simpler and cleaner and always has been. For instance: [img]http://screensnapr.com/e/W9Igvx.png[/img] Why did I want to know that when going on a search engine? It's unlikely that is what I was looking for.

I have a friend who is adamant that Bing is way better than Google. His reasoning? The pictures are purdy. Google is fine, Bing is a waste of money better spent on competing with Apple and Google's other stuff. Or, you know, donate the $1 billion to something that actually helps people out.

[QUOTE=Snakess;32398762]I prefer google as it's simpler and cleaner and always has been. For instance: [img]http://screensnapr.com/e/W9Igvx.png[/img] Why did I want to know that when going on a search engine? It's unlikely that is what I was looking for.[/QUOTE] How many people go to a search engine's homepage these days anyway? I assume that most people just search in their browser's search box/address bar. [editline]20th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Shadaez;32398658]Do you have proof that Bing didn't steal search results? I recall Google making a random group of letters go to some random page. I don't really get how that could be misinterpreted unless Google lied.[/QUOTE] They (Google) installed the Bing toolbar and the Bing toolbar learns what you search and what you click on as a result so given enough time if you search hiphopraggityroo and went to google, it would send that data up to Microsoft then Google would be a result when you searched that. Google Toolbar does the same thing. Microsoft, even before all of that, has stated that's how it works. And Google stated that they were using Bing toolbar to test that. It just seems to me Google was just bashing the competition who poses no threat to them.