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mda · 2019-01-17 16:38:23+00:00

Yet still it is Bing search + Bing ads.

ealhad | karma 623 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2019-03-07 13:29:54+00:00

Both search and ads are from Bing.

miralabs | karma 732 | avg karma 3.77 · | 2014-09-17 23:21:41

it is still Bing.

freehunter | karma 23077 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2015-04-03 20:36:41+00:00

Bing Ads.

Animats | karma 143047 | avg karma 6.11 · | 2020-01-24 22:48:07+00:00

I switched to Bing last summer because Google was mostly showing me useless ads. Bing is years behind Google, but that's a good thing.

jameshart | karma 19910 | avg karma 4.65 · | 2011-07-29 09:29:23

And the irony is, that Bing's advertising is all about how instead of 'searching', Bing is for 'deciding'. Yet they're not even on the first page for 'decide'. More SEO needed :)

Ligrev | karma 33 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2021-03-23 08:10:29+00:00

There's Bing Ads which alone may suggest otherwise. Also, they operate a search engine.

pcr0 | karma 1387 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2020-09-12 02:46:57+00:00

While they might not track your search history, their business is still built on ads in search results served by Bing.

partdavid | karma 350 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2020-07-06 16:40:37+00:00

That's Bing anyway.

HigherPlain | karma 29 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2022-04-15 16:04:51

It's Bing.

scarface74 | karma 25313 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2020-05-18 22:00:56+00:00

There is also Bing.

princevegeta89 | karma 1431 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2023-06-07 00:46:00

Regarding the ads situation, Google Search has been the same in my experience. install UBlock origin and that should take care of that annoying fucking crap.

Regarding Bing - I am still yet to meet anyone who uses Bing on a day to day basis for reasons other than adult content, and the fact that Microsoft "still" has a rewards program for people who use Bing itself makes it very clear that it cannot get enough user growth after all these years and is trying to hard to force it by incentivizing it.

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bumblebird | karma 438 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2009-12-04 03:30:57

I'm sick of the radio ads already.

"Bing! The NEW search engine". Not a mention that it's a rebrand of a crappy microsoft search.

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ChatGTP | karma 875 | avg karma 0.37 · | 2023-04-17 09:36:00

Bing embeds ads, so no problem there.

folbec | karma 289 | avg karma 5.45 · | 2023-10-25 12:20:49

here it's more like the Bing team.

It's all about targeted ads.

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theli0nheart | karma 4575 | avg karma 5.36 · | 2009-12-04 07:01:56+00:00

Actually, Bing is mostly a rebranding of Live Search, which has been around for a long time.

mda | karma 1912 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2020-01-22 09:19:00+00:00

Bing is still the main source.

dharbin | karma 201 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2012-10-09 17:54:26+00:00

Then why not just advertise Bing itself?

il | karma 5202 | avg karma 6.96 · | 2011-03-21 11:51:42

I guess Microsoft still doesn't know this, a big reason for Bing's growth in market share is a $100 million ad campaign. Much of that ad spend, ironically, is on Google.

Animats | karma 143047 | avg karma 6.11 · | 2019-10-22 08:16:43+00:00

Recently I switched from Google search to Bing search. Bing is years behind Google, and today, that's a feature. Microsoft just hasn't bothered to do the obnoxious things Google does now. Bing doesn't have much content of its own. The better search results seem to show up before the ads. It's not flashy, but it's OK.