search engine competition

Bing’s gradual rise from the shadows of Google’s decades-long dominance has been shaping up as one of 2024’s most surprising stories in the tech world. For years, jokes about Bing’s relevance or adoption rates seemed almost obligatory whenever the topic of search engines came up. But fresh...

For years, the question of why Google dominates the web search landscape has intrigued economists, regulators, and ordinary internet users. Recently, a novel academic study attempted to shed light on this issue by directly investigating user preferences and the forces driving market share in web...