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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by kumarm on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:19PM (#6608050)
>>Microsoft has gotten serious about exploiting their search engine tech and that is having an effect

If you ask a source like Yahoo who see's real data, you would know thats not true. If Bing is making an impact Yahoo would not be going out of way to avoid Bing.

CPC is down due to lower CPC's on Mobile. Isn't it public knowledge?

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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by ChuckMcM on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:34PM (#6608152)
You realize that Yahoo is Bing right? Yahoo outsourced its native search engine to Microsoft a while ago and has served up results from them ever since.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by timr on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:49PM (#6608234)
as is duckduckgo.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by thefreeman on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:16PM (#6608387)
what?
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by yid on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:35PM (#6608490)
did you actually think that ddg runs its own crawlers, indexing, ranking, etc.?
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by thefreeman on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:59PM (#6608930)
apparently it does, in addition to other sources (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources). But you are right about Bing being one of them. Though I wouldn't go so far as to say that duckduckgo is Bing like the gp said.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by apostlion on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:00AM (#6611024)
For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by Alphasite_ on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:06PM (#6608680)
/It does some, bit its mostly google.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by forwardslash on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:24PM (#6608078)
What do you mean by 'avoid Bing'?
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by barista on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:27PM (#6608107)
I think he/she is referring to the news that Google tried to delay roll out of Bing in some Asian markets.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by kumarm on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:16PM (#6608383)
Yes I was referring to Yahoo trying to delay roll out of bing in Asian Countries.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by barista on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:22PM (#6608068)
This was probably a tactic by Marissa to push Microsoft to modify the terms of the contract to be more favorable. Remember she was not the one who signed it.
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