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● 07.20.09

●● If Google Renamed, It Would Gain Another 80% Market Share

Posted in Deception, Google, Microsoft, Search at 10:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

…According to Microsoft’s logic

Summary: A game with figures and definitions intends to paint a deceiving picture

THIS is an interesting little catch about Microsoft’s already-struggling-to-grow search engine. Watch how Microsoft spins its search engine, claiming a jump from 0% to 8% because they renamed their search engine and began redirecting visitors. Underneath it is mostly the same, so to suggest such a gain is like Google launching under a new domain, pretending to have begun from scratch, and then pretending to have gained a lot of market share, starting from 0%. Here is another article whole title is “Microsoft: Bing Jumps 8 Percent Since Launch”. This is a very deceiving headline and it is irresponsible to put it like that. Towards the end it states:

=> already-struggling-to-grow search engine | ↺ claiming a jump from 0% to 8% | ↺ another article

Bing has yet to capture as much of the market globally, with 3.27 percent of worldwide marketshare in June, behind Google with 89.8 percent and Yahoo with 5.15 percent.

The English-speaking press tends to paint a different picture by citing US-oriented surveys. The same goes for studies of Web browsers and operating systems trends, where data is mostly collected from the most developed countries.

Here is one person who is blocking Bing altogether.

=> ↺ blocking Bing altogether

Webmasters all over the web have been noticing the same trend. Exposure Online says, “Microsoft is lying and intentionally screwing up your log files,” and eKstreme.com says, “Yell if Microsoft’s Live.com Spammed You Too – Updated,” and even other webmasters decided to block MS’ bot before I did.

This last article is spinning it in some other ways; for instance, it is measuring only what seems like growth (e.g. “people likely to recommend”) and ignoring the rest of the possible metrics that are less than supportive. █

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