eWeek speculated on December 3rd that Bing might gain market share from Google if Google continues experience outages. Little they knew that Bing was about to go dark itself.
eWeek:
It was the second time in two months that Microsoft had updated Bing, which the company hopes will erode Google’s dominant market share in the search engine space. At the moment, Bing occupies roughly 9.6 percent of the U.S. search engine market, according to a November research report by Experian Hitwise, while Google holds 70.6 percent.
November’s updates to Bing included a video page with added feeds from Hulu, MSN Video, ABC and other content providers; the search engine also began displaying results from Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine designed to provide definitive, usually numerical answers in response to queries.
In what could be construed as an additional irony, an
eWEEK analysis piece on the morning of Dec. 3 posited that Bing could gain market share if Google’s search engine experienced repeated outages. Commenters on that article, in an amazing bit of prescience, suggested that server outages could also happen to Bing."It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the servers managing [Bing’s] core application could experience a system error that forces it offline either," one reader wrote. "There is nothing to prove that [Bing’s] servers are any more reliable than [Google’s]." [More]
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