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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by philipodonnell on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:29PM (#15066105)
I think the point is that this type of search isn't worth anything to anyone because it can't result in an ad being displayed. It benefits MS because they can talk about big "search" numbers, but no one else cares.
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by _Codemonkeyism on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:07PM (#15066377)
If as a Win10 user I'm getting used to searching in the "Start" menu I'm not going to google.com
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by jerf on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:26PM (#15066520)
The point is that if you're searching for "n", "no", "not", "note", "notep", "notepa" and "notepad" because you typed a bit slowly into your start menu, those 7 searches count for nothing by any useful metric, be it either anything a human was interested in, or anything an advertiser is interested it. Google doesn't lose out a search because typing "notepad" into the Start menu never meant a desire to search the internet in the first place. If Bing is counting those as searches they aren't very "real". I say "if" because I don't have any direct knowledge.
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by _Codemonkeyism on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:05PM (#15066856)
The point is that if you're searching for "n", "no", "not", "note", "notep", "notepa" and "notepad" [...] "notepad help" because you typed a bit slowly into your google search field, those 11 searches count for nothing by any useful metric, be it either anything a human was interested in, or anything an advertiser is interested it.
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by jerf on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:54PM (#15067313)
Thank you for repeating my point back at me...? I find myself seriously wondering if you're a bot?
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by _Codemonkeyism on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:07AM (#15069618)
You haven't read my comment.
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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by RugnirViking on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:22AM (#15072082)
Google doesn't search on every letter you type.
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