Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)

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CORRECTION: There’s incredible power to data in the hands of companies operating at immense scale.
It’s why there’s now a movement to limit this,
why companies like Digi.me, who I’ve previously mistaken for a data collection company, actually let users manage and safeguard their
information.
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Bing is laughed at but it’s actually a profitable product, which demonstrates the power of the control tech companies can have.

*The end of this video includes a paid sponsored promotion. This company had no part in the writing, editing, or production of the rest of the video.

*Clarification: The top Bing searches at the beginning is from a satire website (although I suspect they're not far off from the truth) https://www.thebeaverton.com/2012/07/keyword-term-google-number-one-most-searched-item-on-bing-for-28th-straight-month/

Credits

Big thanks to Varsity Star for making the music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4EbSc50zkOhLL9lCWmop2T?si=9-KyKUtNTMyxNtKqGY_H-g

One of the sections was largely inspired by: https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/android/google-earns-four-times-more-from-ios-than-android/

https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-share-held-by-smartphone-operating-systems/

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/opinion-internet-org-facebooknet/

Steve Ballmer going crazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04FOUQpnGsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/bing-is-bigger-than-you-think-microsoft-boasts-at-33-of-us-searches/

Burj Khalifa Graphic based on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skyscrapercompare.svg

Microsoft ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-qriKXcips

AstroPad App: https://astropad.com

Digi.me: https://digi.me

http://ampletter.org

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/

https://www.techradar.com/news/bing-search-has-taken-over-a-surprising-amount-of-googles-turf

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269668/market-share-of-search-engines-in-the-united-states/

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bings-share-search-market-growing-faster-googles/164425/

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-paying-apple-billions-to-remain-default-search-on-ios-analyst-says-2017-08-14

https://searchengineland.com/bing-revenue-growth-microsoft-earnings-q4-2017-279424

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/

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