Microsoft Bing is Growing, ComScore Reports
Research from Comscore reports that Microsoft latest search endeavor, Microsoft Bing, experienced slow and steady growth during its second week online.
ComScore announced yesterday via press release that during its second week, Microsoft saw its daily searcher penetration increase by 3 percentage points to 16.7 percent, compared to the week before Bing launched. This is up from 15.8 percent of daily searcher penetration during Bing’s first week online. Bing also garnered 12.1 percent of internet searches, compared to 11.3 percent during the week of launch and up from 9.1 percent before Bing launched.
“It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week,” said Mike Hurt, ComScore senior vice president. “These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.”
The news comes about the same time Google decided to include a “Discover the Web” button on its homepage. The link brings you to a page that shows off all of the nifty things that irregular users might not know Google could do. Included is weather forecasts, movie times, a flight tracker and unit conversion.
"Hey, Brad, I Googled Ron Paul and I like what I saw."
"Yeah, I Bung (or Binged) him last week and watched a whole bunch of videos."
I tried bing but i'll still stick with Google's Chorme and my custom homepage.
I've been trying to compare the search output from both google and bing lately, and they're usually pretty spot on for each other. Sometimes google has a better result, and sometimes bing has a better result.
I've at least added bing to my firefox search box.
"Bing it" or "Binged"/"Bung" won't be used. We don't run around saying "I Yahooed it" or "Yahoo it", now do we?
However, I have made it a point to say "Bing it" anytime I would have said 'google it' before. Partly this is because the former is only 2 syllables while the later is 3, so its faster to say. But mainly I want to play the devils advocate and so far, its been catching people off guard. We'll see if I can make it catch on in my office.
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I've been using Bing quite a bit recently just to see how it compares. Right now it seems just as good as Google. Of course a lot of the things I search for tend to not come up with good results from anywhere, being that it is usually fairly obscure/specific sorts of things.
No it's just easy enough to say "search it" instead... They shouldn't have to be told what engine to use. However those that only use Google.com to search, I guess that's just as well.
ok not that I'm promoting or knocking people finding creative ways to use "anus" in their comments - but where did "bung" come from? wouldn't it be you "bang" or "banged" him last week? not that that sounds any better at all (it definitely doesn't - I guess if you're female it sounds less bad though). definitely something microsoft must have missed in their marketing.
You're thinking too hard. Bung is my imaginative made up past participle form of the word Bing.
Please bing. I did bang. You have bung.
It's like the word shat, only different. I shit. You shat. She has shut. (that last one doesn't totally work)
Also, let us not forget the month-long advertising blitz on Hulu - how many times can one person watch a hostess getting her hot dog necklace before they go nuts and start collecting shrunken heads?!? (I made it to 1,127... so my guess is it is somewhere around 1,128.)
"Don't bing Carmella Bing at work."
Past tense: Bang it.
"I bang Tom's Hardware many times."
Past w. have/has/had: Bung it.
"I have bung holes in 32-bit memory."