Is your next article going to be “Five Reasons Not to Use Microsoft Office”... I’ll start it for you. 1) Microsoft Office costs hundreds of dollars. Every other productivity software suite is free.... Lets keep it balanced.

They are making it more costly, meaning more searches, to get Amazon cards in the latest rehash of their rewards. I think they will eventually drop third party cards, probably in the near future. It has to be costing them a fortune.... If 100 million people, not a lot in the grand scheme, get $50 a year from Bing…

I have to think that 99% of the Bing market are people who are searching with the Windows default (not aware they are even using Bing) and/or people trying to get rewards. I think the number of people who actually prefer Bing to Google based on the merits is very small.

It is higher. That is the comScore number (few take comScore methodology or numbers seriously anymore) and it is a US only number... Bing pays people, for the time being, to use their search in the US, so that number is skewed as Bing loses money on every US search. If you were to look at any other source, Google is…

Not true... but as YouTube is overwhelming the best source (both in variety of content and delivery of content), it makes sense that most of the content would come from YouTube. Most of Bing video’s content is a straight redirect to YouTube.

No, Google wins, primarily, because they are better than everyone else at search. As you mention, there are other options, but they are all worse in one way or another. Google’s complex query handling and fresh indexes are unmatched. Google Maps is often imitated, never duplicated. Bing video is better than Google…