Bing's US Market Share Is Wildly Underestimated. Microsoft claims Bing, its search engine for people who have just unboxed a new computer and are trying to find out where to download Chrome, is bigger than you think. Stats released by the company this week claim Bing enjoys an astonishing 3. US, which is far higher than the frankly more believable 9 percent it reports worldwide. According to Microsoft, the 3. This is surprising, because as Ars Technica’s Peter Bright noted, the most common reaction he gets when he says he uses the site at all is slack- jawed stares and stupid questions. I, for one, can’t remember a single time I’ve used Bing in recent memory, other than the aforementioned use of installing a web browser that doesn’t use Bing. ![]() If Microsoft’s metrics are to be believed, it’s quite a coup: Half a decade ago, some rankings had it come in at under 3 percent of global searches. The numbers seem to go up and down depending on the source, but the most generous prior estimate (from Comscore last year) put Microsoft at just north of 2. Bing technology powers Yahoo’s search engine. None of that counts mobile queries, where Google has a functional global monopoly with virtually no meaningful competition whatsoever. So few web- savvy people seem to use Bing that those who do are a sort of curiosity, though that might just be compartmentalization: If you’re a heavy Google user, using Chrome tied to a Gmail account, it might not ever occur to you that Bing even exists. But since the vast majority of new computer sales are for Windows devices, which come preloaded with Bing- defaulting browsers Internet Explorer or Edge, one would imagine there’s enough workplace users, old people, folks who don’t give a damn and others of their ilk to make up a big share of the market. They’re real and they’re out there, just Binging it up, occasionally not noticing sand penises.[Ars Technica]. Stephen Colbert Visits President Trump's (Alleged) Pee Tape Hotel Room. Stephen Colbert took viewers to a Moscow hotel room on his show last night. But it wasn’t just any Moscow hotel room. It was the room where President Trump allegedly had two sex workers urinate on the bed as a sign of disrespect to Barack Obama, who had previously stayed in the same room. And the segment is pretty nerve- racking. By now you’ve probably heard about the alleged Trump pee tape that was filmed by Russian spies in the Presidential Suite of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow. President Trump himself has insisted it’s not real, pointing out in his defense that he’s “very much a germaphobe.” But as 2. ![]() Other bizarre stories in the so- called Trump Dossier, first published by Buzzfeed, have since been confirmed. Colbert is the first American TV personality to film the room since Trump allegedly made it rain in 2. And without spoiling too much, I’ll just say that the bed is the least interesting thing about the whole segment. Not only does Colbert give viewers a glimpse at the perspective from sitting in the bed (you’re looking right at the Kremlin) he pulls a stunt that seems to get him in legitimate trouble with hotel security. Again, I won’t spoil to much, but let’s just say the idea that there’s hidden surveillance going on in that room is more or less confirmed. That doesn’t mean the pee tape is real, but given just how bizarre everything in Trump’s orbit has been this year, it’s getting harder and harder to call the idea absurd.[You. ![]() MSDN Magazine Issues and Downloads. Read the magazine online, download a formatted digital version of each issue, or grab sample code and apps. Stephen Colbert took viewers to a Moscow hotel room on his show last night. But it wasn’t just any Moscow hotel room. It was the room where President Trump. Microsoft claims Bing, its search engine for people who have just unboxed a new computer and are trying to find out where to download Chrome, is bigger than you think. Microsoft’s “Continue on PC” is Device Agnostic. The company’s new “Continue on PC” feature is a site sharing tool for both Android and iOS devices.
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