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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Bong: Fail

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____/ Richard Rasker on Monday 13 July 2009 22:54 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
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>> | All the buzz comes from a new search market analysis by Web stats
>> | company StatCounter. Bing, the researchers say, secured 8.23 percent of
>> | all U.S.-based searches for the month of June. (Bing officially launched
>> | on June 3.) The previous month, StatCounter shows Microsoft sitting at
>> | 7.81 percent of U.S. searches. That amounts to a month-to-month increase
>> | of just under half a percentage point following Bing s debut.
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> 
> Interesting. In the past eight weeks, my own Web server registered exactly
> two (2) bing requests. Out of a total of 21,000 requests from unique IP
> addresses, some 15,000 of which were Google requests.
> 
> Ah well, Microsoft business as usual, I guess.
> 
> Richard Rasker

Microsoft pays a lot of publications (e.g. TechFlash) to generate excessive
buzz about Bong.

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