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That's a pretty big whole for Bing to miss. Probably doesn't track as well since it requires a mistyped query -- most people doing comparisons of relevance compare correctly typed queries. But a big hole for real world usage... at least I'd think so.
I can't tell if that whole is intentional.
can somebody explain how being on facebook stops people from searching on google?
To me Bing sounds too much like "bling". Does anyone else have that silly word association stuck in their head?
Very good interview. I think it's smart that he is not underestimating Bing. Mr. Schmidt also has great comments clarifying Google's position on the net neutrality announcement with Verizon (about 12:00 mark).
can somebody explain how being on facebook stops people from searching on google?
The halo effect.
I don't think it really plays out because who searches in Facebook, and your browser search box is always present.
Google needs Bing to be moderately successful to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit. Bing is a win for Microsoft either way. If it gets about 30% market share, then Bing makes Microsoft money and forces Google to invest more in search. If even the largest software company after investing billions can't stop Google's growth in search, then Microsoft and others will claim that that Google is a monopoly. So it should be subjec…
The government thought this was an abuse of the monopoly, but the charges didn't stick.
What Google's doing is nothing close to that, though. Nobody uses other search engines because they suck. The results are irrelevant and the ads are irrelevant. That's not anti-competitive action, that's competitive action -- they make a good product that people like. Seems legal to me.
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Sounds like Bing uses just spell checking rather than n-grams on search queries as Google does.
That's a pretty big whole for Bing to miss. Probably doesn't track as well since it requires a mistyped query -- most people doing comparisons of relevance compare correctly typed queries. But a big hole for real world usage... at least I'd think so.
(Although lately, I find it too aggressive. When googling obscure error messages, it usually "do you mean"-s it into a less obscure error message that I already understand. Sigh.)
can somebody explain how being on facebook stops people from searching on google?
I guess, the more time they spend on Facebook, the less time they spend googling?
If I want to look at drunken pictures of my friends, though, then I will definitely use Facebook. I use each tool for what it's good for, and I think most other people do the same because it comes naturally.
(I hate structured socialization, though, so I don't use Facebook. But I can accept that I'm abnormal in that respect.)
Google needs Bing to be moderately successful to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit. Bing is a win for Microsoft either way. If it gets about 30% market share, then Bing makes Microsoft money and forces Google to invest more in search. If even the largest software company after investing billions can't stop Google's growth in search, then Microsoft and others will claim that that Google is a monopoly. So it should be subjec…
Isn't anti-trust designed to prevent people from abusing their monopoly position? For example, Microsoft was the top OS vendor. They wanted to dominate the highly-lucrative Web Browser Vendor business. So, they forced everyone using their popular OS to use their web browser. The government thought this was an abuse of the monopoly, but the charges didn't stick. What Google's doing is nothing close to that, though. No…