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Would like to see chart of Chrome/Edge superimposed on Google/Bing. Usage Rates.

I'm using Google less and less, but not using Bing. It is more like Google is not as useful anymore.

So would like to see a trend of usage rates, to see if Bing market share didn't go up much, did overall Google usage go down?

Market share might have only gone up 1%, but did the overall market shrink.

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Google is also less and less “useful” because social media has essentially turned most of online content into content that cannot be indexed by google

I think after a new Google/Twitter agreement a few months ago, Google started returning tweets in result messages again.

Market share should be relative, so if there was a stark decline in search bing would have declined close to as much as Google. Unless this is some other measure erroneously labeled as market share .

Sure I've just seen 'market' share be used to spin things.

Like hyping how your market share went UP. But you lost customers, sales were actually DOWN. Just the other guy lost more. So your market share went up.

I've been in companies that had bad sales, and they super hyped how market share had gone up like we were winning. But the entire market was shrinking enough that total sales had gone down.

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