“Today was a day where we brought some more competition to search. … I’ve been at it for 20 years, and I’ve been waiting for it. I hope that, with our innovation, they [Google] will definitely...
It’s been a dissatisfaction that’s been simmering for well over a decade.
Back in June 2009, a bespectacled 42-year-old Senior Vice President at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced the launch of Bing, the Redmond company’s answer to Google’s popular search engine.
That man was Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s current CEO.
While Bing made some early inroads, it hardly made a dent in the widespread use of Google.
And it’s not even close.
According to Statcounter, Google’s global market share is near 93%, while Bing is not able to muster even a 3% share.
Things came to a boiling point earlier in February this year.
As Nadella revealed Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, he couldn’t resist taking a dig at the top dog [bolded for emphasis]:
