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If Microsoft can't bring it traffic... who can?

Facebook. Even though IE is still in the lead (for now), everyone "googles" and "facebooks" their way through the internet. No one "microsofts" anything.

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There are quite a few people who aren't so tech-savvy that unknowingly use Bing because it's the default in IE. I'm guessing they're the majority of that 27%.

They're also probably the ones that type "google" into the Bing search bar to get to Google. :)

In my experience if you set a search engine other than google to the "not so tech-savvy" they will use it to search for "google" and then proceed from there.

Trouble is Facebook doesn't have $11B. Would be interesting to see Facebook paired with a decent search technology, though. With Google+ on the horizon, it can't be far from their minds.

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