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Lately, it seems like all those writers who take gifts from Microsoft
can’t help but talk about Microsoft’s Bing as a looming threat to
Google. Can you imagine those same people characterizing Safari as a
potential savager to Internet Explorer? Of course not, yet Safari’s
share of the browser market is greater and growing faster than Bing’s
share of search.
Yes I’m not making this up. According Net Applications, Google has
81%, Yahoo 9%, and Bing 5.3% of browser search traffic...
But wait, it’s it unfair to compare Bing’s early progress against
Safari? Only if you’re fooled by Microsoft’s charade of renaming its
failed products. Bing is just the new name Live Search, which was
formerly Windows Live Search, which was originally MSN Search when it
debuted in 1998. For the last couple years, Microsoft has been
operating MSN Search and Live Search as separately branded search
properties....
And yet, all pundits can tell us is how interesting Bing is and how
marginalized and unimportant Safari is. Do they not understand that
Safari is promoting a new open web based on HTML 5 and other
interoperability standards, in contrast with Microsoft’s dogged
efforts to keep the web proprietary and tied to IE, with new efforts
to force users to download Silverlight just to watch basic video
content?
A closer look at historical numbers reveals that the situation is even
more damning to “selective journalism” than I originally expected. Net
Applications reports that, when combining all of Microsoft’s various
search brands together, the company has actually significantly fallen
behind in search, dropping from 14% in 2004 to 12.5%, 8.7%, and then
6.3% in 2007. In the last year, Microsoft’s share dipped under 5%,
only to recover slightly to its current 5.9%, according to Net
Application’s methodology....
The next time you read about how fascinating Microsoft’s MSN/Live/Bing
service is and how spectacularly it is doing, make a note that you’re
probably reading an advertisement rather than legitimate news, and ask
the source how much they’re getting paid to prattle it.
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