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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by blondie9x on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:40PM (#29984603)
You know there are essentially only two search engines on the internet right? Google and Bing? Microsoft is doing good and cornering market and is helping users forget that DDG and Ecosia and Yahoo are just Bing.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by cletus on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:06PM (#29985805)
Who is Microsoft "doing good" for? It's not Microsoft shareholders. Bing is a money pit and poorly executed.

Do you know who benefits the most from Bing? Google. Why? Because Bing's (subsidized) existence helps create this illusion that there really is more than one search engine. Google loves that Bing exists because it nicely helps them avoid having to have the monopoly talk.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by kooshball on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:33PM (#29986218)
bing made 8b in revenue last year. your data is way out of date. its wildly profitable
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by astrange on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:45PM (#29990060)
Baidu and Yandex are doing pretty well in their markets.
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