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Bing search -- much like MSN and Live -- relied on PR, especially upon arrival. News sites were even sponsored to promote it (market budget estimated at $100 million) and the engine was tweaked such that it discriminates against Microsoft's competition.

Bing failed to gain traction and here is chronological, incomplete coverage of the subject.

2009

Name it “Bing” or “Kumo” or “Live” or “MSN”, But it is Dead on Arrival

New Speculations About Microsoft Buying Citrix or Grabbing Yahoo! Search

With Vista 7 Already Disappointing, Is There a Future for Microsoft?

Bingeing with Microsoft and Ruining the Environment

Yahoo! and Microsoft Still Search for a Future!

Reader’s Article: Bing Against Google

Is This Bing or is it Bong?

Microsoft’s Search Engine Already Banned by Websense and by China

“Decisions Engine” Means Microsoft Decides What You Should Think

Does Microsoft Break the Law in Search of a Future?

From Live Search to Dead Search (aka “Bing”)

Microsoft Pays Company Which Recommends Bing Over Google

Search Engine News: Google Is Not…

Bing Fails, So Microsoft Proceeds to Anti-competitive Practices

$100,000,000 in Marketing (Imposed Ignorance) Bought Microsoft Nothing in Search

Microsoft Web Search and Web Browser Shunned

If Google Renamed, It Would Gain Another 80% Market Share

Microsoft Search and Other Rogue Web Sites

Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Not a Done Deal, But Microsoft Proceeds to Other Deals as Search Ambitions Fail

Microsoft’s Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net Applications Lies Again

Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder

Microsoft Search Dives 28%. Time to Call it Quits?

Latest Dead Products, Delays, and Descends at Microsoft

No Point to Microsoft’s New Datacentres, Microsoft-dominated VMware Comes to Redmond’s Back Garden

Search is Still Slipping Through Microsoft’s Fingers

Microsoft’s Use of Bribes for Search, Only 4% of Microsoft/Razorfish Clients Used Microsoft Search

Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft

Why Microsoft’s Murdoch Tactic is Similar to SCO

Microsoft About Anti-Google “Bribes”: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

LSE Dumped Windows for GNU/Linux; Microsoft Should Do the Same (Bing Crashes)

Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux

“Boycott Bing” Revisited, Google Makes It Obsolete Anyway

2010

Microsoft Implicitly Acknowledges Failure in Consoles, Search, and Mobile

Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google

Microsoft Search is Down in Its Home Country

Lies and Denial of Service Attacks from Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Lost Over $5,000,000,000 Trying to Dethrone Google (in Vain)

Numbers That Microsoft Cannot Let You See (A sobering look at how Microsoft is declining in most areas, including search/online business)

Numbers That Microsoft Cannot Let You See

comScore is Microsoft is comScore is Deceiving (and How Microsoft Controls Minds)

Microsoft Bing in the Business of Deceit, Censorship, and Brainwash

Microsoft Loses Market Share in Search, Exploits Yahoo! Some More, Exploits Linux/Android Phones, and Harvests Many People’s Data

Microsoft Finds Out That Bribing Doesn’t Work in the Long Term, Neither Against Google Nor GNU/Linux

Yahoo! Search Personnel Fired, Microsoft’s Bong (sic) Sued for Patent Violations

comScore — Paid by Microsoft — Finally Admits Its Figures Are Bogus, Gamed

Microsoft Shoves Bing Toolbar Down People’s Throats Using Windows Update, Cheats Search Engine Meters

Microsoft Has an Internet Problem, Relies on Lies

Microsoft Still Loses Billions of Dollars Online

Microsoft and Yahoo! Continue to Lose to Google, Microsoft Resorts to Regulators to Complain About “Monopoly”

Microsoft Can’t Afford to Buy Search Market Share Anymore, Kills What’s Left of Yahoo!

2011

Microsoft Alleged to Have Tricked People Into Switching to Bing, Using a Rogue Site

Microsoft is Just a Skin

Microsoft’s Bing Executives Continue to Flee While Their Company Admits Scraping Results From Google

2013

Microsoft’s Search Efforts Descend Into Obscurity

2022

GNU Emacs Pointing to Microsoft Servers With Microsoft Ads (Spying) and Other Brainwash (via DuckDuckGo)

GNU Emacs Pointing to Microsoft Servers With Microsoft Ads (Spying) and Other Brainwash

DuckDuckGo

2023

This Month, Microsoft Bing and Its Fake ‘Privacy’ (Proxy) DuckDuckGo Fall to Lowest Share in Over a Year!

Contrary to What Bribed (by Microsoft) Media Keeps Saying, Bing is in a Freefall and Bing Staff is Being Laid Off (No, Chatbots Are Not Search and Do Not Substitute Web Pages!)

Aggressive Microsoft Marketing/Lies as Bing Falls Closer to 2% Market Share, Google Gains More Share (ChatGPT Has Only Harmed Bing, Which Has Layoffs Too)

In the World’s Biggest Population, Microsoft’s Bing Fell Below 1%, Down Sharply Since ChatGPT First Announced

Bing is Dying and Chatbots Won't Save Bing

No Wonder Microsoft Laid Off Bing Staff and Started Aggressively Shilling Chatbots Instead (Bing Market Share is in a Freefall)

Microsoft's Bing Falls to Lowest Share in 2 Years Despite Chatbot Hype and Amid Bing Layoffs, Executives' Departure

Techrights Was Right About Microsoft's Chatbots Hype

In Spite of 'ChatGPT' Hype, Microsoft Falls Well Below 1% in Russia (for Search)

The Collapse of ChatGPT (and Microsoft’s Bing), Plus More Layoffs

Microsoft and Its Proxies Are in a Freefall

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