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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.

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 your data is way out of date.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