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Will IE9 boost Bing?

by Bounderby
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There is much hype in the UK at the moment about Microsoft's IE9 and the various snazzy tricks it can do. I presume the same is true elsewhere.

So if it is any good, how do you see it improving Bing's use as a SE? As the default search, will users migrate away from Google and level the playing field?
#bing #boost #ie9
  • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
    I am using IE8 and I always use Bing first. So sick of Google search.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin W
    I doubt Bing will overtake Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    I seriously doubt that IE9 will create a movement from Google to Bing, at best it might push Bing's small share of the search market up a bit.

    IE6 is what doomed Internet Explorer, frustrated and savvy users abandoned it for superior browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even Opera. They won't be returning soon, and all versions of IE since then have been playing "catch up" with the other browsers.

    As Internet Explorer is installed with Windows and preset with MSN as the home page and Bing as the default search engine it will always have a market share, mostly among the computer-illiterate users who think the "blue e" is the only way to access the web. But even they are aware of Google.

    For all their hype and advertising Bing isn't that great anyway, although the do have some excellent webmaster & SEO tools that many are not aware of. But as for search they eat Google's dust in terms of providing relevant results - in fact it sometimes astonishing how inaccurate Bing and Yahoo queries are when compared to Google.

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  • Profile picture of the author abednego
    I was never satisfied with the results Bing spews out. Even small time Yahoo provides better searches, I think.

    Plus, IE9 still doesn't adopt the open policy that Firefox has - so extensions and add-ons will be few and far between.

    No thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author D_M_S
    It will not help Bing per se. Or at least not nearly as much as it will help HTML 5. If you look at some of the demos around that, the things you can do with HTML are amazing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kirk Ward
    I'm using Firefox because I got fed up with IE, long before IE6.

    I'm old and I don't like change, so I'll be staying with FF, like most all of my old fogey friends will be staying with whatever they are currently using, and many of them use IE specifically because it came on their machine.

    Heck, quite a few still use AOL and won't change.

    It's you young whippersnappers that will decide the market. Us, we'll just slowly fase away, with our tiny market share.
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  • Profile picture of the author zorus
    chrome and firefox are strong because of plugins, if IE focus 99% in plugins they could win becase they have a great asset which are microsoft programers
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  • Profile picture of the author Kirk Ward
    And the chance of them releasing an API so outside coders can create plugins is ... ?
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Kirk Ward View Post

      And the chance of them releasing an API so outside coders can create plugins is ... ?
      ...called ActiveX.

      Remember how dangerous and unstable it was to run native code connected to your browser?

      Funny how that only applies to a Microsoft browser, isn't it?
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  • Profile picture of the author duia
    Both IE7 and IE8 are bad browsers when compared with Google Chrome and Firefox. So, if IE9 has a good erformance, I guess it will have a good effect on Bing search engine.
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