Is Bing.com REALLY Bigger than Twitter and Digg Mythbuster Challenge

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Last Updated July 10, 2009

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Well I had so MANY positive comments yesterday from all the Mythbuster fans, I figure I can wring one more use out of the reference, LMAO. I have been hearing all the rumors about how Bing jump to prominence in such a short time that it became bigger thank CNN, Digg and even Twitter in no time. Well, the folks at Go-Digital.net put the myth to the test.

According to Go-Digtal.net Microsoft actually redirected all of its traffic from Live.com and MSN.com to the Bing URL which accounts for all the hyper traffic.

Using another web site to prove this, this graph shows how MakeoverSolutions changed its name to DailyMakeover.com to show how this looks on a Compete.com charting. This is what it looks like when a site changes domain names and redirects all traffic from the old site. By next month Compete will show the same “X” formation graphing for Live.com vs Bing.com

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This current chart already shows the decline from Live.com’s traffic stats after being entirely redirected to Bing.

So once again, this myth is…

Augustine Fou

Hi Vince

The traffic from Live.com and MSN.com are bigger than the others mentioned cnn.com, digg.com, and twitter.com. But the claim that bing.com is already bigger than these implies that since its launch, people now voluntarily go to bing.com -- which they would normally have to do when a brand new site launches -- e.g. WolframAlpha.com.

But in this case, users do not voluntarily go there. Microsoft is redirecting all traffic there, including even desktop search (how unsavory). Some users may even be surprised when they notice the URL automatically changed from live.com (which they typed) to bing.com (which they did not type).

So the MYTH of bing being bigger than those 3 sites shortly after launch because people like it enough to voluntarily go there is BUSTED. BUSTED. BUSTED.

and P.S. there will be no "upclimb" from any "new starting point."

John

Hey Vince, thanks for the insight

vince jelenic

John, sad truth, is the claim is indeed true, not BUSTED.

Bing resides on top of msn.search.com and live.search.com robots, spidering the net. You will still not see a "bing.com" search engine coming into a website, the old spiders still at work.
By the looks of it, msn and live WERE larger than the others noted, so they just rolled it into bing.

Just standard marketing hype, as usual, but not really a BUST here is it?. the graph will reverse itself soon. The upclimb from the new starting point will be the truth.

It's the same thing quantcast does - it provides ratings per website or per "network" to "quantize" or monetize a web holding by rolling traffic together across sites.