"Samsung Considers Switching Default Search Engine on Mobile from Google to Bing", the day after the news was disclosed in the New York Times, Microsoft shares rose 2% and Google parent company Alphabet shares fell 3%.

For the past 20 years, Google has been the unrivaled dominant player in online search, with Microsoft's Bing hovering in the 3-5% market share range. By February 2023, Bing, which had no presence in the search engine market, suddenly added the GPT-4 AI capability, which hit a crack in Google's sturdy search wall.

In terms of market share data, the "crack" did not bring about a fracture, but Bing's web visit data and mobile download data are growing. The crisis lurks, Google does not intend to let this "crack" widen, the company recently announced that it will develop a new AI-powered search engine Magi.

For ordinary users, the search giant's new action or will drive the entire search engine field to AI further upgrade, can not keep pace with the search engine may be like 20 years ago Yahoo, MSN Search, like, left in the dust of history.

If the hardware side of Google was replaced by Bing ......

Samsung, the global smartphone market share of the second manufacturer, is considering the next generation of cell phones in the default setting of the search engine to Bing, currently, Google is the default search tool for most of the market users of Samsung cell phones.

If this consideration becomes a reality, for the user, it is just a change of cell phone browser page or app on the boot, but for Microsoft and Google, it means real money.

Your phone, computer can be set by default in the search engine, in fact, all need to develop the company to pay the hardware manufacturers. According to public information, Google has to pay $20 billion a year to Apple to ensure that Google in Apple hardware can be users press the "default" button; for cell phone sales have reached 226.4 million units of Samsung, Google's payment is $3 billion.

To ensure that the product can reach greater traffic, in order to retain the search engine companies account for the bulk of advertising revenue, so that you can easily understand the reason for Google to pay for Apple, Samsung.

According to industry estimates, if Samsung gives up the default Google search, Google will lose $ 300 million in annual revenue. For Samsung, Google no longer pay the cost is likely to be Microsoft "to fill the gap", a new search provider is not a loss, and Microsoft is likely to rush to pay. There is already a view that "Microsoft is worth the money for this".

You know, since Google from 2003 to become the market share of the first search engine, the dominant position almost welded to the search market, Microsoft's Bing although efforts to rush to the second, but the gap between the first and second runner-up is too big. Only 2022, Google's share of the global search engine market share is 91.55%, Bing and Yahoo, YANDEX and other search engines share the "cake" crumbs. Position is too disparate, other search engines in the past few years in the basic "lie flat" state.

Google will remain the dominant player in the global search engine market in 2022

The ironclad search landscape eventually loosened its grip in 2023, with Microsoft pitching OpenAI, the conversational robot ChatGPT on fire, once seen as the most promising replacement for the search engine, and in February, Microsoft added GPT to Bing.

Now, Samsung throws the olive branch for Microsoft to provide a new opportunity to enhance Bing market share by hardware. Once this opening, do not rule out other Android phones to follow, the pressure will be given to Google. analyst Gil Luria of D.A. Davidson & Co said that if Google continues to delay the integration of generative AI into its search products, Bing will gain more market share in the search field in the coming months.

The new Bing mobile monthly downloads increased 8 times

Currently, Bing has been integrated into the upgraded Microsoft Edge browser, and has added three new features to the traditional search function: "Answer", "Chat" and "Create". Bing has been integrated into Microsoft Edge browser. Bing can also write medium-length text, such as nutritional configuration instructions for menus. In a follow-up upgrade, Bing added academic article creation and image recognition, enabling users to send images in conversations with Bing and ask it for information about the images.

So, does the new Bing have the ability to replace Google or not? After all, Google also added Bard, a conversational bot, to Google in this round of the AI race. does the AI version of the search engine really surpass the traditional approach in terms of experience?

Tech media outlet The Verge has measured both Google's Bard, ChatGPT and the new Bing, asking a series of questions and comparing the quality of answers from the three conversational bots. The authors concluded that ChatGPT's answers were the most complete and accurate, with a high degree of humanization; Bard's answers included a lot of erroneous data and false information; Bing's understanding and use of natural language was not as good as ChatGPT's, but the answers showed the ability to search for information and give web links for users to view the source of information and determine authenticity.

It can be seen that the current AI version of the search engine does not yet have the ability to do straight to give reliable information, but the new Bing provides a new form of search engine + dialogue robot, which is still unique in the whole market, and some data are showing the potential of Bing's turnaround.

Some data show that from the launch of the new Bing from February 7 to March 20, the number of visits to Bing pages increased by 15.8%. The change in Bing's data on mobile is even more dramatic. Data.AI, an application research firm, showed that monthly downloads of the Bing App increased eightfold globally after the integration of AI, rising from 100,000 in January to 810,000 in February. Downloads of the Google Chrome App dropped slightly from 2.98 million to 2.91 million over the same period.

Bing downloads on mobile are increasing, Google is decreasing

Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an interview again mentioned the "new era of search", he did not hesitate to use the phrase "brand new competition", releasing Microsoft's ambition to remove the "search millennium old two "hat ambition.

AI-driven Google Magi on the string

In the market share level, Google is still holding more than 90% of the share, Bing's market share growth is not obvious, but Google does not intend to sit on the mountain, Bard has tried to integrate AI in the search engine, now, Google is not satisfied with this.

Foreign media reports, Google plans to launch a new AI-driven search engine, codenamed "Magi", adding a variety of AI features, including chat, but also according to the user's query and preferences to predict what the user wants to get, to provide a "more personalized experience It will also provide a "more personalized experience" by predicting what users want to access based on their queries and preferences. In addition, Google Magi will probably allow searchers to complete online transactions, such as online shopping or booking airline tickets and so on.

Another tech media broke the news that Google currently has 160 employees working on Magi, which will first open to 1 million users in the U.S. in May, and then to 30 million users in December.

As of now, Google has not officially released any details about Maji, and Google spokeswoman Lara Levin said in a statement that not every brainstorming group or product idea can be launched, "We are excited about the new AI features that search will bring and will share more details soon."

Google does have to get excited because the search business is just too important to it. According to 2022 earnings data, Google parent company Alphabet 2022 revenue of $ 282.8 billion, of which, Google services contributed 90% of revenue, Google cloud contributed 9% of revenue. And in the core business Google services, Google search and related to bring $162.5 billion in revenue, accounting for 57.5% of total revenue.

Covering the search engine Google services, mainly by software to achieve, over the years has been relying on the integration with third-party hardware to take the user. For example, the phone with Google will come with the "Google family bucket", in addition to the default Google search and Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and other apps.

The news that Samsung has been exposed to replace Google with Bing is not good for Google. Retaining the cooperation of hardware manufacturers is to retain the traffic entrance, the service business that contributes to Google's main revenue will not be affected. Want to keep the kingdom, accelerate the product AI has been imperative.

Overseas technology media said that Google employees are also developing other products of AI features, including: AI for Google Earth; search music through chat robots; GIFI use AI to generate images in Google Image results; Tivoli Tutor through open AI text dialogue to teach users a new language; Searchalong let Searchalong lets users ask questions to chatbots while surfing the Web through Chrome.

The new Magi needs to be refreshing as soon as it's launched, after Bard, the conversational bot, flopped during a live demo at Google, and Google wants to undo the bad impression that rocked the world and affected its stock price. With Microsoft on its heels, it shouldn't be too late for Magi to come out.

"Samsung Considers Switching Default Search Engine on Mobile from Google to Bing", the day after the news was disclosed in the New York Times, Microsoft shares rose 2% and Google parent company Alphabet shares fell 3%.

For the past 20 years, Google has been the unrivaled dominant player in online search, with Microsoft's Bing hovering in the 3-5% market share range. By February 2023, Bing, which had no presence in the search engine market, suddenly added the GPT-4 AI capability, which hit a crack in Google's sturdy search wall.

In terms of market share data, the "crack" did not bring about a fracture, but Bing's web visit data and mobile download data are growing. The crisis lurks, Google does not intend to let this "crack" widen, the company recently announced that it will develop a new AI-powered search engine Magi.

For ordinary users, the search giant's new action or will drive the entire search engine field to AI further upgrade, can not keep pace with the search engine may be like 20 years ago Yahoo, MSN Search, like, left in the dust of history.

If the hardware side of Google was replaced by Bing ......

Samsung, the global smartphone market share of the second manufacturer, is considering the next generation of cell phones in the default setting of the search engine to Bing, currently, Google is the default search tool for most of the market users of Samsung cell phones.

If this consideration becomes a reality, for the user, it is just a change of cell phone browser page or app on the boot, but for Microsoft and Google, it means real money.

Your phone, computer can be set by default in the search engine, in fact, all need to develop the company to pay the hardware manufacturers. According to public information, Google has to pay $20 billion a year to Apple to ensure that Google in Apple hardware can be users press the "default" button; for cell phone sales have reached 226.4 million units of Samsung, Google's payment is $3 billion.

To ensure that the product can reach greater traffic, in order to retain the search engine companies account for the bulk of advertising revenue, so that you can easily understand the reason for Google to pay for Apple, Samsung.

According to industry estimates, if Samsung gives up the default Google search, Google will lose $ 300 million in annual revenue. For Samsung, Google no longer pay the cost is likely to be Microsoft "to fill the gap", a new search provider is not a loss, and Microsoft is likely to rush to pay. There is already a view that "Microsoft is worth the money for this".

You know, since Google from 2003 to become the market share of the first search engine, the dominant position almost welded to the search market, Microsoft's Bing although efforts to rush to the second, but the gap between the first and second runner-up is too big. Only 2022, Google's share of the global search engine market share is 91.55%, Bing and Yahoo, YANDEX and other search engines share the "cake" crumbs. Position is too disparate, other search engines in the past few years in the basic "lie flat" state.

Google will remain the dominant player in the global search engine market in 2022

The ironclad search landscape eventually loosened its grip in 2023, with Microsoft pitching OpenAI, the conversational robot ChatGPT on fire, once seen as the most promising replacement for the search engine, and in February, Microsoft added GPT to Bing.

Now, Samsung throws the olive branch for Microsoft to provide a new opportunity to enhance Bing market share by hardware. Once this opening, do not rule out other Android phones to follow, the pressure will be given to Google. analyst Gil Luria of D.A. Davidson & Co said that if Google continues to delay the integration of generative AI into its search products, Bing will gain more market share in the search field in the coming months.

The new Bing mobile monthly downloads increased 8 times

Currently, Bing has been integrated into the upgraded Microsoft Edge browser, and has added three new features to the traditional search function: "Answer", "Chat" and "Create". Bing has been integrated into Microsoft Edge browser. Bing can also write medium-length text, such as nutritional configuration instructions for menus. In a follow-up upgrade, Bing added academic article creation and image recognition, enabling users to send images in conversations with Bing and ask it for information about the images.

So, does the new Bing have the ability to replace Google or not? After all, Google also added Bard, a conversational bot, to Google in this round of the AI race. does the AI version of the search engine really surpass the traditional approach in terms of experience?

Tech media outlet The Verge has measured both Google's Bard, ChatGPT and the new Bing, asking a series of questions and comparing the quality of answers from the three conversational bots. The authors concluded that ChatGPT's answers were the most complete and accurate, with a high degree of humanization; Bard's answers included a lot of erroneous data and false information; Bing's understanding and use of natural language was not as good as ChatGPT's, but the answers showed the ability to search for information and give web links for users to view the source of information and determine authenticity.

It can be seen that the current AI version of the search engine does not yet have the ability to do straight to give reliable information, but the new Bing provides a new form of search engine + dialogue robot, which is still unique in the whole market, and some data are showing the potential of Bing's turnaround.

Some data show that from the launch of the new Bing from February 7 to March 20, the number of visits to Bing pages increased by 15.8%. The change in Bing's data on mobile is even more dramatic. Data.AI, an application research firm, showed that monthly downloads of the Bing App increased eightfold globally after the integration of AI, rising from 100,000 in January to 810,000 in February. Downloads of the Google Chrome App dropped slightly from 2.98 million to 2.91 million over the same period.

Bing downloads on mobile are increasing, Google is decreasing

Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an interview again mentioned the "new era of search", he did not hesitate to use the phrase "brand new competition", releasing Microsoft's ambition to remove the "search millennium old two "hat ambition.

AI-driven Google Magi on the string

In the market share level, Google is still holding more than 90% of the share, Bing's market share growth is not obvious, but Google does not intend to sit on the mountain, Bard has tried to integrate AI in the search engine, now, Google is not satisfied with this.

Foreign media reports, Google plans to launch a new AI-driven search engine, codenamed "Magi", adding a variety of AI features, including chat, but also according to the user's query and preferences to predict what the user wants to get, to provide a "more personalized experience It will also provide a "more personalized experience" by predicting what users want to access based on their queries and preferences. In addition, Google Magi will probably allow searchers to complete online transactions, such as online shopping or booking airline tickets and so on.

Another tech media broke the news that Google currently has 160 employees working on Magi, which will first open to 1 million users in the U.S. in May, and then to 30 million users in December.

As of now, Google has not officially released any details about Maji, and Google spokeswoman Lara Levin said in a statement that not every brainstorming group or product idea can be launched, "We are excited about the new AI features that search will bring and will share more details soon."

Google does have to get excited because the search business is just too important to it. According to 2022 earnings data, Google parent company Alphabet 2022 revenue of $ 282.8 billion, of which, Google services contributed 90% of revenue, Google cloud contributed 9% of revenue. And in the core business Google services, Google search and related to bring $162.5 billion in revenue, accounting for 57.5% of total revenue.

Covering the search engine Google services, mainly by software to achieve, over the years has been relying on the integration with third-party hardware to take the user. For example, the phone with Google will come with the "Google family bucket", in addition to the default Google search and Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and other apps.

The news that Samsung has been exposed to replace Google with Bing is not good for Google. Retaining the cooperation of hardware manufacturers is to retain the traffic entrance, the service business that contributes to Google's main revenue will not be affected. Want to keep the kingdom, accelerate the product AI has been imperative.

Overseas technology media said that Google employees are also developing other products of AI features, including: AI for Google Earth; search music through chat robots; GIFI use AI to generate images in Google Image results; Tivoli Tutor through open AI text dialogue to teach users a new language; Searchalong let Searchalong lets users ask questions to chatbots while surfing the Web through Chrome.

The new Magi needs to be refreshing as soon as it's launched, after Bard, the conversational bot, flopped during a live demo at Google, and Google wants to undo the bad impression that rocked the world and affected its stock price. With Microsoft on its heels, it shouldn't be too late for Magi to come out.