The reasons for this backlash are many and varied. Some don’t like Bing’s algorithm and find its search results to be of lesser quality. Others dislike Microsoft’s tactic of forcing Bing on them as the default search engine with no easy way out. Or, like the Apple vs. PC debate, some people dislike Bing simply because it isn’t Google.
Here is what we researched. one of the main reasons why people automatically navigate to Google as opposed to Bing is familiarity and habit. We are so used to “Googling” things these days that the term is even in the dictionary. In fact, the number 1 search term on Bing is “Google”.
So it’s really not that Bing is a bad search engine or a crappy search engine; it is that Bing is a small search engine, compared to Google.
Why do people dislike bing?
Others dislike Microsoft’s tactic of forcing Bing on them as the default search engine with no easy way out. Or, like the Apple vs. PC debate, some people dislike Bing simply because it isn’t Google. After a while, it just became the default to hate on Bing, maybe without even knowing why.
Why do some people not like Bing?
Because it’s not Google, hence the name, BING. Another reason why some people may dislike BING is because it is often used as a default search engine.
One of the next things we asked ourselves was: why am I such an oddity on Bing?
I’m an oddity because most people don’t use Bing at all; either because they’ve used it and didn’t get the results they wanted, or based on word of mouth about it being so terrible. I don’t know where you fall, but I would bet most of you reading this don’t use or even like Bing. That’s unfortunate because you’re missing out.
I think the “hating” is not rational. It’s not that bad. But the fact is that Bing has no soul at all, no positioning and no real particularity. So when you use Bing, it is just not as good as Google. Other annoying elements : In schools it is often put by default, which is very annoying.
How many people are using bing?
126 million unique US users performed 6 billion searches on the Bing network in March 2019, according to Com, and score data. Today, Bing controls 36% of the US desktop search market. Wait … what? That’s no typo. Almost half of the US runs a search powered by Bing every month.
While we were reading we ran into the inquiry “How many people use Bing each month?”.
Another answer is bing gets more than 1 billion visits each month. Bing is the second largest search engine worldwide, with a 2.71% market share. Microsoft generated $7.74 billion in search advertising revenue in the 2020 fiscal year. Bing is available in 105 languages and 238 countries. Bing has a market share of 36.96% among US console users.
What is the market share of Bing in the US?
As of August 2017, Bing had the second-largest global single-word search query market share, accounting for 25.47 percent of single-word search queries. Bing also has the third highest market share among the leading mobile search providers in the United States only behind Google and Yahoo!.
Is there a reason for Microsoft to continue Bing?
Considering that Internet search is a big industry, having a fifth of all of the revenue that comes out of it is kind of a big deal. So, besides ad revenue, is there really a reason for Microsoft to still continue Bing even though it’s not the most popular search engine? The answer is still yes.
Microsoft generated $7.74 billion in search advertising revenue in the 2020 fiscal year. Bing is available in 105 languages and 238 countries. Bing has a market share of 36.96% among US console users. Bing currently has a 2.71% share of the worldwide search engine market. Bing’s cut of the market has increased by 11.06% since 2019.
What is Bing?
Bing launched in June 2009. Developed and operated by tech giant Microsoft, the search engine has generated some early customer traction. And even started to eat into Google’s search engine market share.
What is Bing and how does it work?
Just like Google, Bing is a search engine and does pretty much all of the same things. Bing has autosuggestions, currency conversions and result tabs for images, videos, news and shopping, amongst other common features. On a very basic level, a search engine’s job is to bring up the most relevant results from the internet for a user’s search term.