Study: Will Google Users Switch to Bing?

In a study, 15 Google users were recruited by a qualitative research firm and instructed to use Bing, exclusively, for one week. The study's sponsor, Microsoft, wasn't revealed until after participants indicated their likelihood to remain with their current search engine or switch to Bing.

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• Search
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• Shopping
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• Travel

[Masoud5991]

I did..

[TazG2000]

windowspczone:

You forgot the terms of your hypothetical situation. If Google was a small unknown search engine, no one would know who they were. So why would anyone be rating this high just because it's Google?

You're forgetting that at one time Google WAS the little guy. They beat the big guys through actual merit, not relying on hype, false advertising, or pre-installing a browser with their site as the default homepage on everyone's system.

[TazG2000]

I meant a fanboy of the company, not the product. Just look at your profile and comments.

Now look at my comments. At what point did I say anything about the product? I'm talking about the fraud being committed by the company with this ad. In response you blindly defend them with nothing remotely resembling intelligent discourse. You repeatedly ignore everything I say and bring up irrelevant topics, and you show no sign of stopping.

[mackenziepricee]

A Fan boy, No. I still use Google Chrome as it is a great browser and I used Google Search Engine up to only a few weeks ago. Until I worked out Bing was superior.

[TazG2000]

I don't see how you could possibly relate that to what I was talking about, unless you were deliberately changing the subject to avoid addressing it.

Judging by your profile page and recent comments on other videos, it looks like you're a fanboy. That would explain your incapability of looking at any of this objectively.

[mackenziepricee]

A bit like bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?

Haha right.

[TazG2000]

"Microsoft have done nothing wrong in this ad, you just pick out tiny flaws."

Fabricating fake studies is not a "tiny flaw" and it's not the first time Microsoft has done it. They've been legally charged for doing the same thing in the past.

[TazG2000]

mackenziepricee:

READ THE DESCRIPTION next to this video.

"In a study, 15 Google users were recruited by a qualitative research firm"

They are making a direct statement here. It's not just weasely ad words or personal opinion. It's a claim that requires backup. The "firm" has not been named, and the conditions and sample of the test do not constitute what any real research firm would do.

This is fraudulent and you know it. You're just trying to downplay it now to avoid embarrassment.

[mackenziepricee]

Lying because only 15 people did the study.

Lolk.

[TazG2000]

mackenziepricee wrote: "You still have flaws in your case. She never said she traveled, she organised it."

You are not paying attention. The issue here is that it's highly unlikely that in one given week, someone among just 15 people would happen to be planning a trip. It's blatantly an actor selling the "travel" feature of Bing.