No. At least, I really don’t think so. Read this below and I’ll continue.
In one of the more intriguing surveys of recent weeks, website One News Page has found that over half of the people it surveyed will be replacing Google with Bing as their main search engine.
The news portal surveyed 1,000 people and found that 55 per cent of those who answered preferred to use Bing to search for things on the internet.
Even more unbelievable, 68 per cent of those surveyed actually liked the name Bing – they must really like Chandler from Friends – and 90 per cent said they would use the expression “to Bing it”.
Just Bing it!
“Microsoft has a winner in Bing and in a couple of years it may be a force to be reckoned with,” said Dr Marc Pinter-Krainer, founder of One News Page.
“Microsoft finds ways of entering late into mature markets and flexing its huge marketing muscles to grab substantial share.
“My verdict is that Bing will give Google a good run for its money, and the resulting competition in the search engine market can only be a good thing.”
In other news, three out of three out of four TechRadar journalists will never say the expression “to Bing it” without sniggering. And that is a fact.
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I admit that this is completly possible. But I also have a question. Did these people change their homepages ? I mean, if their homepages were Google, did they change them into Bing ? No, I guess not. They’ll use Bing for a week, a month max, but Google is a lot faster and also more fluid. So, as the human body works, they’ll come back to sweet and truthful Google. Because reliability is vital for this kind of websites and if Bing fails them once, they’ll leave it very fast. And as they’re used to Google, they’ll come back (again).
In the meantime, not a lot of people are aware of Bing’s existence. At least, French non hard-tech educated youth. And nothing will/can replace Google in their minds. For them, Google is Internet. When they launch their browsers, (homepage Google) they won’t go in the URL bar to type the adress, no, no, they’ll type Facebook into Google’s and wait for the result (and the link).
How to change this ? I guess Microsoft’ll need to prove us that Bing is really better and unfortunaly, it isn’t. Sorry. Also, remember that my generation is the next one. So, change must be felt now or wait for another generation to come. But don’t waste our web.
