Desperate Microsoft Will Pay $1,000,000 to Someone Who Actually Uses Bing

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Desperate

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Will Pay $1,000,000 to Someone Who Actually Uses

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Make a ********

To

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users out there — don’t all jump up at once —

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is offering the chance to win $1,000,000.

Such is the tech giant’s desperate attempt to shake up its search engine’s role as an extremely distant second fiddle to

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. There’s not only a main prize of a million bucks up for grabs, but also $10,000 for another ten winners.

The

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started last month and — lucky you — there’s still time to enter, though you’ll have to be a resident of the US, Canada, ***, France, or Germany for a chance to win.

Enter with your

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account and complete little quests like setting

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as your default search engine, or downloading the

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app, or doing all sorts of other

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-things to increase your odds of winning. And *****, why not? It’s not like

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and its blundering AI Overviews make for all that amazing of a search engine these days.

Uphill Battle

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’s efforts to topple

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Search have been comically Sisyphean in their futility.

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launched in 2009, and since then,

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’s market share of the search engine space more or less hasn’t budged from 90 percent globally.

With that dominance,

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also reaps about 50 percent of US search advertising, adding to a whopping total of

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global search revenues in 2023.

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, meanwhile, might consider it cause for celebration when its search market share goes from 2.8 percent to 3.4, as it did

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.

And to its credit, it did make a dent — or at least a divot — with its early

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AI ChatGPT integration efforts, giving what felt like the first time

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pretty much ever.

Suddenly the tech industry believed

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could bleed, and using chatbots that could supplant conventional search engines — and thereby

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’s biggest cash cow — was how they’d draw blood.

Money to *****

That underdog story hasn’t quite panned out yet.

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******** the all-powerful Big Bad, and for all of the newfangled AI features stuffed into

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(now shelved under the Copilot label), it

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in a significant bump in

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’s search market share.

As of this month,

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accounts for 4.15 percent globally,

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.

So, when all else fails, why not literally pay people money out the wazoo to use your product? It’s certainly not everyday that

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does a giveaway this big. Either it’s that desperate, or just embarrassingly flush with cash; after all, the million dollar prize is just one-seventy-ninth of its CEO’s

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!

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#Desperate #

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