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Is anyone actually seeing anything from Bing?

by MichaelHiles
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I saw some crap news report earlier today about how Bing supposedly has Google shaking and quaking... so I pulled some stats reporting a but early to see if there was anything substantial.

Bing and Yahoo were each holding about 1.72% of my actual search engine referral totals. Roughly 96% was from Google.

I don't see much more out of Bing than I did MSN.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Google is not quaking about Bing any more than Microsoft is quaking about Chrome.

    The blunt fact is that Google doesn't really make their money from search. They make their money from advertisers, and advertisers pay that money because of their massive number of AdSense partners, and that massive number of AdSense partners can't get anything even remotely similar from Microsoft. The search function of Google was evidence that they had solved a problem, and it's now well-known that they've solved it. Bing is now in the position of demonstrating they've solved a problem, too, but they're missing the last piece of the puzzle - a massive network of people handing them eyeballs.

    Likewise, Microsoft doesn't really make money from their browser. It's awfully nice that people use their browser so much, but honestly, if you switch? They don't care. The purpose of IE was to demonstrate that all the technologies and protocols necessary for internet usage were now built right into the operating system... the browser was (and to a large extent still is) a thin layer of UI painted onto a powerful set of internet technologies you could embed in your own Windows apps. Google and Firefox can't offer that, because they don't have the other piece of the puzzle: a massive army of people who already have it installed.

    These articles about how vendor X is quaking over the new offering from vendor Y are completely clueless, and it's totally obvious that the people saying it don't know WTF they're saying.
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    • Profile picture of the author franchiseshop
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Google is not quaking about Bing any more than Microsoft is quaking about Chrome.
      Early days and not to say the boat won't rock just yet, on both fronts.

      Bing: It has it's good features and MS has the advantage in that it can promote it with it's windows installs. Did not work for it's other search engines but with the right functionality and marketing it may work in the future, I wouldn't hold your breath though.

      Chrome: Is quick and sleek, and has the power of Google behind it. It lacking in functionality and plugins though but these will be introduced soon enough. Eventually it will be packaged with toolbars and promoted to death on the Google homepage, as well as promoted alongside Google Wave and each and every other package that Google comes out with. Google is looking at the long term and not rushing everything, if they have it their way you will be using Google Chrome, sending IM messages within the Google Wave platform within Chrome, sending GWMails within Google Wave within Chrome, sharing documents and images within Google Documents within Chrome and generally looking onto a desktop browser within Chrome where you have everything you need.

      May the Bing/Google/Chrome/Wave/Microsoft battle commence!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ess E. Oh
    It has sent us less than 1% of one site's traffic I work with, but its visitors do show a high pages/visit, lower bounce rate, and eComm conversion a little higher than that of Google's organic traffic. Interesting.
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
    You nailed it.

    I was just curious because the PR spin tripe got me thinking that I need to see what's happening just in the past few days.

    Pretty much a non-event.
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  • Profile picture of the author annihilator
    The only difference I'm seeing from Bing is that it doesn't index my new articles. MSNBot is all over my site, but it's always indexing the same old articles every time. I don't get it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    For a handful of my domains, especially the ones that have keyword dense domain names, over 90% of my traffic is coming from Bing!
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    • Profile picture of the author Brian Cook
      Just checked the stats on one of my products...

      over the past week, 17% of the search engine referrals came from Bing.


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    • Profile picture of the author melanied
      That's what I noticed, too...Bing seems to like keyword domains.

      Originally Posted by Eric Stanley View Post

      For a handful of my domains, especially the ones that have keyword dense domain names, over 90% of my traffic is coming from Bing!
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    • Profile picture of the author Jenie0109
      Originally Posted by Eric Stanley View Post

      For a handful of my domains, especially the ones that have keyword dense domain names, over 90% of my traffic is coming from Bing!
      hmmm....i havent try Bing.com...but because of your comment. Maybe its time to try this one
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  • Profile picture of the author Treece
    I just checked and I have 5% of my traffic coming from Bing this week.
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    • Profile picture of the author NoLemming
      I'm also seeing a good amount of traffic from Bing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sean Kelly
    Bing makes no real impact for me (yet).

    Here are the stats from a small site I have for this month:

    Site Unique Visitors
    Google 1041
    Yahoo! 137
    Unknown search engines 11
    Windows Live 8
    Excite 3
    AltaVista 3
    AOL 2
    Sapo 2
    AllTheWeb 1
    Clusty 1
    Others 4

    As you can see, everything else pales in comparison to Google.

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    • Profile picture of the author anth.elias
      I have seen a dramatic increase in traffic because of the Bing thing, I like it..still Google brings in the most-but this nice spike in traffic is great I hope it lasts forever..
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    • Profile picture of the author franchiseshop
      Originally Posted by Sean Kelly View Post

      Bing makes no real impact for me (yet).

      Here are the stats from a small site I have for this month:

      Site Unique Visitors
      Google 1041
      Yahoo! 137
      Unknown search engines 11
      Windows Live 8
      Excite 3
      AltaVista 3
      AOL 2
      Sapo 2
      AllTheWeb 1
      Clusty 1
      Others 4

      As you can see, everything else pales in comparison to Google.

      Sean
      Sean: Your SE stats may not be counting bing referrals yet, I know mine do not in cPanel. My website referrals show bing up though.
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  • Profile picture of the author freelistfool
    What I've experienced so far is twice the amount of traffic from Bing than I used to get from Live. So it appears that a lot more people are using Bing, but it still pales in comparison to my Google and Yahoo traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    One of my niche sites is kicking total booty because of Bing traffic. But every other niche I'm in it's all about Google organic traffic. They're not quaking, I'm betting.

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    • Profile picture of the author Macy
      I've noticed a decent increase since bing has come along when compared to the old "Live" stats.

      Still google is my main source of traffic but I'm pleased to see that bing is now responsible for driving around 7% of visitors to my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Expert
    One of my top sites is bouncing from #5 to #3 and back again depending on the day. In bing that same site isn't on the first three pages.

    I dunno how they are running things over there.
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  • Profile picture of the author whmarketer
    I like Bing a lot. I got to #1 in just 2 days with a new.org website with no backlinks or any off-page SEO. 100% of traffic comes from Bing.

    I like the new name too.
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  • Profile picture of the author indemand
    I'm wondering how Bing is going to affect the ultimate search engine loophole strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author RoiRaw
    I have yet to see a difference. The only difference I saw was on the day that the iPhone bull got out. I had some higher traffic from Bing that day but haven't since. Google is almost always pulling 94% of mine in.
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  • Profile picture of the author webmatic
    I myself get 70% of my organic traffic from google and 30% from bing and yahoo (but most of the 30% is from bing) usually more thn 25% but still bing can't take over google so easily.
    I am still getting most of my unique visitors from Google but i see some changes in the bing as well so i hope it will be much more better in the future.
    Thanks
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