Microsoft's Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing (So Far)
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Bing is only 2 years old?? That was the only thing I was surprised by in this article, you simply can't beat Google at their own game.
They're making a hell of a lot of money on the Xbox as far as I know. They turned a profit a couple of years ago (on 360, perhaps not in total).VanBasten said:
Microsoft seems to be doing a lot of hemorrhaging lately, and I blame that on the fact they are being too "Me, too!"-ish by trying to chase after everyone's honey pot instead of getting their own. In the past, Microsoft was able to just push their way into other markets using their size and financial weight because many were intimidated by Microsoft. Unfortunately for Microsoft, those days have passed. In my opinion, they can't afford to keep playing the "Me, too!" game and need to focus on a market or set of markets that are uniquely Microsoft's.
They're not monopolizing... they're competing. And taking on so many companies on at once in completely different fields - and SUCCEEDING (successful competition is not being tossed out of the market) - is not dumb, it's positively celebration-worthy.pearcinator said:
I'm not sure you understand how the market works.
Sure, Bing hasn't been a success, but it's still there. Plus, they have the lion's share of PCs (outdoing Apple), they have a small following for their music players and phones (not outdoing Apple, but they haven't been defeated either), they have a very strong following in their game consoles (Nintendo sold more, but they have less fan loyalty), and such. I fail to see why this is bad for Microsoft... at all.
Nope. When I started modding it, I had to install a script extender, which had the "unfortunate" side effect of disabling GFWL. Move your saves to the relevant location (ie. one folder back) and voila - Fallout 3, GFWL free.Sansha said:
TO be honest, I actually prefer Bing to google at this point. For one, I'm a bit creeped out that Google seems to be somehow monitoring my personal searching trends and somewhat predicts what I'm looking for. There's something under the surface there that bothers me, but at this stage I do not yet know what that is.
That and on my phone the Bing app seems to work much faster and returns things closer to what I'm looking for.
Lastly, at home or mobile, Bing seems to bring up things closer to what I'm looking for. My job requires me to do a lot of research, and as a perpetual student I do an equal amount of searching for information or data. Bing usually gives me what I need without me having to skip the first two or three search pages that are full of ads, links to products, and porn like I get in a Google search.
I think though it just comes down to preference and Google right now has the bigger name recognition.
That and on my phone the Bing app seems to work much faster and returns things closer to what I'm looking for.
Lastly, at home or mobile, Bing seems to bring up things closer to what I'm looking for. My job requires me to do a lot of research, and as a perpetual student I do an equal amount of searching for information or data. Bing usually gives me what I need without me having to skip the first two or three search pages that are full of ads, links to products, and porn like I get in a Google search.
I think though it just comes down to preference and Google right now has the bigger name recognition.
Its not that I can't DO the key word system, its just I'd rather type a sentence, blame my father, got me into that habit.Denamic said:
I asked how its bad, you didn't tell me.
Ha, that was good one.the27thvoice said:
No, the website was something that combined letters of orgy and nerd, it was a pretty random website, overall.
[sub] Bloody professor being all weird and shit.[/sub]
And thus the mystery as to why nobody likes using the service is revealed!DJDarque said:
But yeah, messing with Google in their home turf? It took balls to do it but it also took 5.5 Billion to flat out lose it seems.
It's the default search engine on my work computer, and I switched it to google since that one gets me the actually results I wanted in the first place.
Was a pain in the ass to switch though.
Was a pain in the ass to switch though.
This has already stacked up to a little over two pages and has a lot of hi-larious Facebook comments associated, but did anyone think to double-check the "14.7% of the search engine market share" figure?
A cursory glance at a few other sites shows that MS has about 30% of the market with half of that being through Yahoo. What's more is that that figure seems to grow little by little every month.
So, the hell?
A cursory glance at a few other sites shows that MS has about 30% of the market with half of that being through Yahoo. What's more is that that figure seems to grow little by little every month.
So, the hell?
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Totally agree.Treblaine said:
Bing sucks plain and simple. The first thing I ever do on a strange computer... change default search to Google. You'd think for 5.5 Billion it would at least work well...
Yes, every time I have used another search engine (or browser, Google Chrome is awesome) I have not felt very much at home, there is unnecessary crap all over my page and I have to wonder where some of the search results come from.darthricardo said:
"competing with Google isn't the most economically viable business strategy I've seen."
That was awesome! One has to wonder what Google does... okay buzz failed, but as for the rest...
LOL! I know that that is what I type in it if ever I am forced to use Bing. "Because it's not google" is not a good enough reason, they actually need to make a search engine that is better, if not equal to Google. Which probably won't happen.Treblaine said: