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Over Half of Surveyed Consumers Will Replace Google with Bing

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I call bullshit on the article and especially on the lead paragraph. The voluntary response "survey" mentioned says nothing about consumers in general. See

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...

on voluntary response polls as a poor source for inferences about the behavior of the population of interest.

SSshh, if the general populace learns about selection bias the strategic whitepaper industry would be doomed.

In other news, over half of McDonald's customers said they would also eat at Burger King.

Not exactly informative.

You should read the comments on the page. Its a lot of fun. And by the way, the article a truck load of vague assumptions.

I'm already seeing a fair amount of traffic (paid and organic) arriving from Bing from a variety of geographic locations. Of course, Google still dominates by a monstrous margin, but it's more traffic than I ever saw from Live.com or Yahoo.

Any other B2B or B2C businesses here seeing the same?

On the other hand, I am seeing (so far) less traffic than I did from Live + MSN search, and I cannot see much differnce in my rankings.

May be the people you are getting are the sort who are likely to try Bing? MAy be you rank higher on Bing? Maybe people who would have clicked through to my site are now satisfied with pop up summary on Bing?

This article is somewhat poorly put together. There is a good chance that their conclusions are erroneous.

That said . . . I have replaced Google with Bing as the default search provider in the browsers on my machines. So the central idea of the article may have merit.

Just an idea . . . perhaps we could take an HN poll on the question of how many HNers have switched their browser search provider to Bing.

This article is not worth of a comment. I read that on Onion I guess- someone was asked about Bing and he said "Well, I don't know about that. I will Google it once I get home." On an another note, imho, Google is way ahead of the game. When I heard about Bing, Roger Federer's match was taking place in Paris. I searched "Federer" (no quotes)on Bing and it showed me all good web-page results and that's it. However, when I searched "Federer" (no quotes) on Google it not only showed good web-page results but it also showed me the real-time match data on top of the organic results. Now this is something amazing, I mean really :) Bing can be a game changer, who knows, but they have a some catching up to do.

55% sounds like a pretty skewed sample.

If Microsoft can leapfrog Yahoo into the #2 position, I think it could be considered a big success.

It kind of did, for a day: http://gs.statcounter.com/press/bing-overtakes-yahoo/

"This survey has been sponsored by Microsoft Corp."

This survey is producing pretty meaningless results. 55% will replace Google with Bing, but at the same time 55% say it wasn't different enough from Google. Furthermore, how do you plan to replace a search engine? Either you do it or you don't. This survey seems poorly conducted, and I think there is little point in conducting a survey about this in the first place, as the traffic generated by Bing vs. Google can be relatively easily measured.

Recipe for creating revenue for News Portal.

  Take 1 part hot topic
  Add a pinch of unexpected result
  Accuracy completely optional

I'm all for competition against Google, hell, I'm even rooting for Microsoft to do well (I can't believe I just said that) - but I'll wait to see what happens as I don't think it is as cut and dry as everyone is making it out to be.

My prediction, I think Bing will do well, it will definitely steal some market share and I don't think we'll see a Googleless searchscape in the near or distant future.

No publication with any sort of journalistic integrity would post this information without either some sort of similar, independent, 3rd party survey or, lacking that, details on the methods and practices used to execute the poll and basic statistics on raw data results from the respondents. As currently reported, these results are without merit or meaning.

"A survey of 1,000 people.." uhh... 1k people can't be objective.

By the way my search results don't appear to be grouped. Probably because that functionality is not added to localized (by default I have Latvian) Bing versions. Switching to English version, everything is ok.

its not a survey, its just an online poll, and from the looks of it, it seems to just be a marketing ploy for a newly launched site

http://www.onenewspage.com/pressreleases/20090605_GoogleHasF...

bribing mozilla/firefox to make bing as default search box is probably more effective, could be cheaper too

Survey: I will replace Google with Bing

Survey: I will _not_ replace Google with Bing

this article is fairly incoherent. how do any of these statistics sum up to mean anything definitive?

However incoherently, they serve to confirm a conclusion that some people want very badly to draw. QED.

So what's holding them back?

"Said they would use the expression ‘to bing it’" You don't consciously select words; you just use them, unless you're forcing a meme.

Anyway, this article is a scam. Absolute bullshit.

I'm guessing the way they got this statistic (if they didn't make it up completely, which they may have) is by asking the question "Would you use the expression 'to bing it' to mean 'to search for something'", and most people responded with "eih sure why not".

I agree. After reading that sentence I literally looked to the address bar to make sure I was not reading an article in The Onion.

"A survey of 1,000 people by news portal One News Page..."

I couldn't even find said news portal's website, and if it exists, it has no established reputation. This drivel does not have a shred of credibility.

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