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'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by blunte »

People go to the name they know. Since for many (most?) people, the word “google” is a verb meaning to search the web, they naturally will prefer that service even if they don’t know why it might be better than whatever is the default.

Meanwhile, it reminds me that we developers don’t understand users or don’t provide understandable interfaces for them.

Observe many people and you’ll see a maddening pattern of browser use: they will use any available method to get to google, and then they will put a url into the google search text box. Perhaps the address bar is inconveniently too high on the screen, or maybe they just don’t know what a url is.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by tpmx »

But Google says its service is simply the most popular.

"We have submitted evidence showing that the most common search query on Bing is, by far, 'Google'"

I assume they have collected this evidence from Chrome users?

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by josefx »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #6
erk__ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how far up "Google" is as a search termon Google

FWIW https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&q=go...

Interest in Google seems to be on a downwards trend, is the company nearing its end?
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