With Bing slowly but steadily rising in popularity Google is facing more pressure than ever to rejuvenate the search experience it has to offer. Sure, they still hold a clearly dominant share of the market at about 64.6% (versus 19.3% for its closest rival, Yahoo), but then again Google has proven to know better than to just rest on its laurels.Over the years, the Mountain View-based company has been enhancing its search engine not only to provide quality and relevant results, but also let users be more particular about their searches with dozens of special features and operators. Despite this, I am willing to bet that most people just use the vanilla search as is.
Fair enough. I mean Google is supposed to be easy to use, so why complicate it? Well, for starters, these functions are meant save you a lot of time and effort. I'm sure the more inquisitive of you know all about the basics, like quoting your searches to find exact matches, and then some -- but that's truly just the tip of the iceberg. Today we'll be highlighting some of our favorite Google search tricks.
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lol Don't worry yourself too much. I know dozens upon dozens of people who have tried 'Bing' at least once, like I have, but they, as I did, just go back to the simplicity of Google. I genuinely don't know of anyone personally who has stuck with it as their main search engine. I don't think Google need to worry too much, as much as the Microsofties would love to pretend otherwise.
And yes, I know, I know, put your flame-guns down... My friends and I are not exactly a realistic indicator of accurate or even meaningful figures, but we are all just average users, which is what Bing needs to be trying to capture the attention of.
Uh, Bing actually dropped slightly in popularity the last month according to StatCounter. While Google gained.
Worldwide stats for perspective:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-w...y-200808-200909
North American stats:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-n...y-200808-200909
European stats:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-e...y-200808-200909
Bing Slows in Race against Google
So much simpler.
Microsoft is relying on their long held philosophy "if you can't make it good, make it look good"
Also everyone know Microsoft never get anything right until it has reached version 3, so one down, two more to go.
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