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disolitude on 15 February 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
disolitude said:

No one is talking about how much bing makes. 

I'm just telling you that last quarter they had 400 million extra searches which makes a substantial amount of money. Advertisers pay anywhere between 5-50 dollars CPC per keyword so you do the math. And look up what CPC means first.

Lol, alright I guess math isn't your forte so I'll help you.

From the link in the OP to December:

"ComScore also said that over 17.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in December 2012"

0.1% = 0.001 as a fraction. 17.6b (total searches) * 0.001(increase in market share) = 17.6m not 400m. You were only off by an entire order of magnitude; not bad.

Searches != CPC. I'm familiar with the term. I guess you aren't. Maybe look it up, bud.


You're right. My math was off as the corect number is 350 million. I was talking about January as they don't provide clear growth data for December. 

Your math however is way off. Search is a growing market. So to gain 0.1% you have to grow with the market + get extra marketshare.

Nearly 19.5 billion explicit core searches were conducted in January (up 11 percent), with Google Sites ranking first with 13.1 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.2 billion searches (up 12 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.3 billion (up 9 percent), Ask Network with 536 million and AOL, Inc. with 331 million (up 7 percent).

Stay in school kids.