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by dasanman 2861 days ago
I know nobody who uses Bing to be honest. Am I wrong in thinking this?
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DuckDuckGo, Alexa, and Cortana use it.

It gets about 21% of the search market.

If you know anyone that use https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://www.searx.me/, then you know some people who use Bing (at least indirectly). Also, some people use Bing (directly) to find porn, apparently...
I use bing all the time. The results are good enough and I get points for amazon vouchers. "image searches" ahem work great too.
Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts.

I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.

I use duckduckgo which is bing with a skin and added features. One of those features is "bang commands" which allows you to use a single site to search thousands of other sites individually. If I want to check if my local Home Depot has the particular deck screws I need, adding !homedepot to my duckduckgo query redirects me to Home Depot's search results page. This is very useful as web sites become heavier and heavier which results in a terrible experience just getting to a search box. Ditto Amazon and most other ecommerce sites. Plus it is nice if I don't get the results I am looking for on duckduckgo to just add !g to the query and get redirected to Google's results.
Anecdotal, but I alternate between Bing and Google, with a general preference for Google.
I've gotten two free meals using Bing rewards.
That's... impressive. I didn't realize the rewards were actually substantial.
Windows 10 is using it in the start menu. Every time somebody types something into it, Bing gets a request for autocomplete.
I use bing all the time for TV shows, its way better than google in this regard