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Microsoft Bing competes with Google Search.

I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble

I'm very far away from that bubble and I have yet to meet anyone who uses Bing either. And I know several people who still use Hotmail/Yahoo.

I use Bing... sometimes. They literally give you rewards points (that can be redeemed for Microsoft/Xbox gift cards) for searching. Pretty funny, the lengths they go to get you to use Bing...

https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/

Seems like Yahoo just uses the Bing API these days.

> Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search

Given that they put it in the same category as Hotmail, I assume that they mean Yahoo Mail, not the search engine.

I see people recommending DuckDuckGo a lot here which is basically just Bing without personalized results.

I use a mix of Bing and DDG, about 50/50. I also know multiple people who use Bing, mostly people not in tech as it’s just “there” if you use Windows.

Bing is unmatched when it comes to searching for porn videos.

I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble

You might be surprised what Joe Average uses. I run into people who not only still use MapQuest, but use it as a verb.

MapQuest directions printed out at home before the trip?

Yeah, but ppl were using Mapquest for years before Gmaps came out. People were using Google before Bing came out.

Interestingly. There's bound to be more people using Bing in the Silicon Valley bubble than outside it. This is because duckduckgo, the famed privacy focused search engine uses Bing as the back end.

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