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0 pointsOJFord6y ago0 comments

> the two major search engines

What's the second major search engine?

I'm genuinely asking, not meaning to poke if it's Bing - I use DDG but just don't have a feel at all for what's most popular after the obvious one.

Wikipedia has just 7% market share left for the second, and the rest - thinking about it's probably one that's popular in China and unheard of elsewhere?

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judge20206y ago

Considering Verizon has stated their Yahoo and AOL properties are worthless[0], it's probably Bing and the search engines that rely on it (including DDG).

0; https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...

dend6y ago

I was referring to Bing and Google - not because I am trying to omit anything, but rather because these are the two I use the most on the day-to-day.

user59944616y ago

What is the first search engine?

Baidu in China. Yandex in Russia. Google in the US. Not sure for India and Latin America.

The poster was probably thinking of Bing though, which is ironic because it's maybe less used than these.

OJFordOP6y ago

I was assuming a global perspective, for which Google is obviously first. (And I quoted Wikipedia confirming that at a shade under 93% market share.)

user59944616y ago

Funny thing, you're describing exactly why you're not assuming a global perspective. Forget about a first, the world is fragmented. To be global is precisely to cater to individual locations around the world.

If we are to believe these stats, Google is at 3% market share in China. It's basically non existent. http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/chi...

Microsoft has developers everywhere in the world, who need docs. There are major search engines besides Google and Bing.

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losvedir6y ago

DDG is just Bing, so when Bing updates its results so will DDG.

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0 pointsOJFord6y ago0 comments

> the two major search engines

What's the second major search engine?

I'm genuinely asking, not meaning to poke if it's Bing - I use DDG but just don't have a feel at all for what's most popular after the obvious one.

Wikipedia has just 7% market share left for the second, and the rest - thinking about it's probably one that's popular in China and unheard of elsewhere?

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judge20206y ago

Considering Verizon has stated their Yahoo and AOL properties are worthless[0], it's probably Bing and the search engines that rely on it (including DDG).

0; https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...

dend6y ago

I was referring to Bing and Google - not because I am trying to omit anything, but rather because these are the two I use the most on the day-to-day.

user59944616y ago

What is the first search engine?

Baidu in China. Yandex in Russia. Google in the US. Not sure for India and Latin America.

The poster was probably thinking of Bing though, which is ironic because it's maybe less used than these.

OJFordOP6y ago

I was assuming a global perspective, for which Google is obviously first. (And I quoted Wikipedia confirming that at a shade under 93% market share.)

user59944616y ago

If we are to believe these stats, Google is at 3% market share in China. It's basically non existent. http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/chi...

Microsoft has developers everywhere in the world, who need docs. There are major search engines besides Google and Bing.

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losvedir6y ago

DDG is just Bing, so when Bing updates its results so will DDG.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse