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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #1 on: June 22, 2009, 04:12:57 PM »
    Got a 500 server error on the article, so ironically I went to Google news to search for a similar article.

    Will Bing bury Microsoft?
    Microsoft still suffers from Google envy: Steve Ballmer appears ready to make a bet of up to $11 billion that Microsoft's new search engine Bing can overtake its Internet competitor. At best, the bet is a long shot, and throwing away that amount of money could well do Microsoft irreparable harm.

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    After reading this article I was able to open your article and was also an interesting read. Especially:

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    Microsoft (MSFT-Q23.28-0.79-3.28%) grabbed 12.1 per cent of U.S. Internet searches for the work week June 8-12, according to data released by industry tracker comScore earlier on Wednesday.

    That is up from 11.3 per cent in the June 1-5 period – the week in which Bing was launched – and up from 9.1 per cent the week before that.

    Pretty good statistics, although they've been marking it really good. Seen lots of advertisements on TV and on the Internet, so will be interesting to see if it can keep the increase going.

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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #2 on: June 22, 2009, 06:50:13 PM »
    Good for "US Today" title:
    "US curiosity level reaches 12.1%"
    ;D ;D ;D

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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #3 on: June 23, 2009, 12:49:50 AM »
    I guess MS simply cannot accept that they don't have the premier technology in every field.
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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #4 on: June 24, 2009, 01:59:40 PM »
    it's kind of hard not to use bing, since the microsoft.com and all of it's subdomains use it for internal searches.

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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 07:16:33 PM »
    Our installer hall of shame is #2 on Bing.... ;D
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    Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
    « Reply #6 on: June 24, 2009, 07:28:12 PM »
    I'm gonna remove it then ;D

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      Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
      « Reply #7 on: June 25, 2009, 09:02:03 PM »
      Why did microsoft make bing?  They just finished making windows 7!  But I do love the commercials... ;D
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      Re: Microsoft makes gains with bing
      « Reply #8 on: June 26, 2009, 09:04:18 AM »
      Why did microsoft make bing?  They just finished making windows 7!  But I do love the commercials... ;D

      I'm not sure what Windows 7 has to do with Bing, or how you figure they "finished" it...
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