Is Bing A Search Engine? No, According To Google
Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine. We all know that, part due to the fact that Microsoft will spend about 100MUS$ in advertisement. But someone didn’t quite agree with the definition of Bing as a search engine - arch-rival Google, the undisputed king of search. It’s gonna be a war, and I found earlier today that Bing drives higher quality traffic to my blog.
Google Analytics is a service Google provides to webmasters and bloggers who are interested in knowing how many people visit their blog and most importantly, where they come from.
But when Goolge Analytics display statistics for ‘Traffic Sources’ ‘, it divides them into categories - direct traffic, referring sites , search engines etc. I found it very surprising to see that traffic I get from Bing is listed under the ‘Referring Sites‘ category, and not the ‘Search Engine‘ category.
Here’s the screenshot:
I don’t believe this is a mistake, as someone had to classify Bing to a Traffic Source type. This being such a delicate issue, I’m sure it’s been discussed thoroughly inside Google.
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