t everything consumers could want, on paper, is housed within their roof
(and Google's). It seems counterintuitive that less differentiation would be
useful, but I think it's what Microsoft is going for.

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Cossolus
Microsoft used to be able to "embrace and extend" in order to extinguish the
competitor. With Bing it seems they can only "embrace", by which I mean
copying and trying to decrease differentiation. But look at the trend. In the
future, when/if Google search incorporates social feedback effects (ala +1),
Bing won't even have the user-base to be able to copy the competitor, let
alone extend and extinguish.

One look at my website statistics tells me Bing is already as good as dead.

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DaveMebs
Yeah, except Bing gets to mine Facebook and Google doesn't. Maybe that's why
it has a higher success rate?

[http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20...](http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2010/10/13/bing-
gets-more-social-with-facebook.aspx)

[http://www.stateofsearch.com/bing-gaining-share-in-the-us-
su...](http://www.stateofsearch.com/bing-gaining-share-in-the-us-success-rate-
much-higher-than-google/)

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jeremydavid
Just thought I'd let you know your text rendered _very_ small on my browser,
and the light grey quotes were almost unreadable.

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steve-howard
Indeed, I have no idea why bloggers are so insistent on using gray-on-white
quotations.

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tocomment
Bing is dead?

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bartl
Well, according to this post, everyone who was technically knowledgeable about
Bing has left.

That implies that there will no longer be any relevant technical progress, any
more.

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cdesmar
Not sure this is relevant progress but 18 march bing for "HG download" gave no
mercurial results (hg was assumed to be a mistyping of HD), by 24 march it was
giving all mercurial results. I twittered about both.

That is at least anecdotal evidence that things are progressing in some way or
another.

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code_duck
Unpredictability is progress?

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cdesmar
Returning meaningful results is 