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Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source

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Re: Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source

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Google is a very tough nut to crack. They got like thousand of hackers fine-tuning Google's algorithm and A/B testing on a massive scale. This make them very nimble and responsive to any competitors who dare to compete with them. Google is like a sumo wrestler. Despite the appearance of fatness, it is actually very fast, strong, and healthy.

You could probably say the same thing about Microsoft, couldn't you?

Does microsoft employ hackers? News to me.

Re: Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source

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I don't know when it began, but I stopped using the address bar quite some time ago. I found it easier to type in the url into Google. If I make a typo, it offers a correction, and I don't accidentally end up whitehouse.com, if you know what I mean. That said, I don't think people are searching for "search engines" on Google. I think people are like me in that they use Google as an address bar.

If you're using most modern web browsers, typing something into the address bar is almost equivalent to typing it into Google. Which, as another comment indicates, is probably where a lot of these hits are coming from.

Re: Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source

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I don't know when it began, but I stopped using the address bar quite some time ago. I found it easier to type in the url into Google. If I make a typo, it offers a correction, and I don't accidentally end up whitehouse.com, if you know what I mean. That said, I don't think people are searching for "search engines" on Google. I think people are like me in that they use Google as an address bar.

but they do: 2,240,000 to be exact

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could probably say the same thing about Microsoft, couldn't you?

Does microsoft employ hackers? News to me.

They do. And some other seriously smart people, e.g. in Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.

(P.S. of course they eat a lot of their own dogfood---so they are not the right employer for everyone.)

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