Desperate Microsoft Will Pay $1,000,000 to Someone Who Actually Uses Bing
Any takers?
To Bing users out there — don't all jump up at once — Microsoft 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 Google. There's not only a main prize of a million bucks up for grabs, but also $10,000 for another ten winners.
The competition started last month and — lucky you — there's still time to enter, though you'll have to be a resident of the US, Canada, UK, France, or Germany for a chance to win.
Enter with your Microsoft account and complete little quests like setting Bing as your default search engine, or downloading the Bing app, or doing all sorts of other Bing-things to increase your odds of winning. And hell, why not? It's not like Google and its blundering AI Overviews make for all that amazing of a search engine these days.
Microsoft's efforts to topple Google Search have been comically Sisyphean in their futility. Bing launched in 2009, and since then, Google's market share of the search engine space more or less hasn't budged from 90 percent globally.
With that dominance, Google also reaps about 50 percent of US search advertising, adding to a whopping total of $175 billion global search revenues in 2023.
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