Bing's US Market Share Is Wildly Underestimated. Microsoft claims Bing, its search engine for people who have just unboxed a new computer and are trying to find out where to download Chrome, is bigger than you think. Stats released by the company this week claim Bing enjoys an astonishing 3. You may think, mm-mm. No. Every component on my car is a consumable. Every mile put on it is another mile closer to when a brake pad must be replaced, an oil changed. US, which is far higher than the frankly more believable 9 percent it reports worldwide. According to Microsoft, the 3. This is surprising, because as Ars Technica’s Peter Bright noted, the most common reaction he gets when he says he uses the site at all is slack- jawed stares and stupid questions. I, for one, can’t remember a single time I’ve used Bing in recent memory, other than the aforementioned use of installing a web browser that doesn’t use Bing. Microsoft claims Bing, its search engine for people who have just unboxed a new computer and are trying to find out where to download Chrome, is bigger than you think. · MSN Money is the hub for your financial life. Be informed and ahead with our real-time stock quotes, deep tools and calculators, and breaking news and. Flagship ZDNet weblog, covering a broad range of technology news. If Microsoft’s metrics are to be believed, it’s quite a coup: Half a decade ago, some rankings had it come in at under 3 percent of global searches. The numbers seem to go up and down depending on the source, but the most generous prior estimate (from Comscore last year) put Microsoft at just north of 2. Bing technology powers Yahoo’s search engine. None of that counts mobile queries, where Google has a functional global monopoly with virtually no meaningful competition whatsoever. So few web- savvy people seem to use Bing that those who do are a sort of curiosity, though that might just be compartmentalization: If you’re a heavy Google user, using Chrome tied to a Gmail account, it might not ever occur to you that Bing even exists. But since the vast majority of new computer sales are for Windows devices, which come preloaded with Bing- defaulting browsers Internet Explorer or Edge, one would imagine there’s enough workplace users, old people, folks who don’t give a damn and others of their ilk to make up a big share of the market. They’re real and they’re out there, just Binging it up, occasionally not noticing sand penises.[Ars Technica]. Let The Cars Go Out For A Drive. Beep Beep. A vroom in the night. It’s your car. It’s time to give it a taste of the road with its tire- feet. Let your car go for a drive. You gotta do it, bud. You may think, mm- mm. No. Every component on my car is a consumable. Every mile put on it is another mile closer to when a brake pad must be replaced, an oil changed. In the garage, it is safe. Nothing is getting at it. It is. The car is. The car is in the garage and nothing is happening to it. I have the car, and I have the car in its most ideal condition (running, nothing broken) and I will keep it that way for as long as possible by reducing the number of miles put upon the car, as each mile brings me nearer to the moment when a part that is on the car breaks, leaving me stranded. What if I drive for nine miles today just for fun, then in the next nine miles that I need the car it breaks? I could have saved those nine miles for when they were most necessary. I should leave the car where it is. It’s fine. I have a good spot. The car is ok. No. The car is for driving. The car needs to let sweet wind caress it. The car needs flickering light from up above to sustain it. Give the car the driving that it needs.
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