Bing gets more visitors than Twitter
Figures released show that Microsoft’s ‘knowledge engine’, Bing, got more unique visitors than Twitter, Digg and CNN in June. It also scored more visitors than Embroidery Online, Taxidermy.net and Non-League Daily but I suppose that’s not as significant.
The site was visited by nearly 50 million users – 49,571,922 to be precise. Twitter got 22,997,148 visitors in the same period, CNN got 28,645,202 and Digg got 38,961,981.
Microsoft reportedly spent £61million on the launch of Bing. So it’s money well spent then? Well, maybe, but Bing isn’t really designed to rival Twitter, Digg or CNN is it? It’s meant to rival Google. Google got 145,948,025 unique users in June, so it’s still got a way to go then.
It’s even still trailing Microsoft’s other search engine, Live, which got 79,405,701 visitors. This was a 21% drop from May though, indicating that users are ditching Live in favour of Bing.
Are you guys using Bing? If so, what do you think? I’ve only really had a quick look – I quite liked the video searching with playback available via the thumbnails. Although I’m told you could do this with Live anyway.
I’m just not getting the whole Bing name either. The Bing will always be Silv’s club in The Sopranos to me. Fuget about it.
(via Revolut!on & Compete)
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I think the previous comment saying “how nice Bing was to look at” sums it up. I use Google to FIND STUFF. If I want to visit a pretty web site I’ll use Bing.
I’ve got to say, i’ve been using bing for about a month now,and i really like it. Its nice having a new beautiful background every morning when i log on, and it has a very clean user interface, im not saying google hasn’t, but plain white seems a tad old once you have been using bing for a while, with the picture in the top left and the colour continuing across the screen. The little orange bubble on the side which gives you an insight into the page, as opposed to the little blurb on google. perhaps there is nothing groundbreaking, but it is nice to finally have a serious contender to google in terms of ease of use and being kind on the eye by only offering relevant information.
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