[jamesaguilar]

Anybody can buy market share if they have deep enough pockets. If it's non-recurring, it doesn't help Bing much in the long run. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-bing-losing-billion...

Put another way, you could compare Google and Bing to Apple and Dell. One side has most of the profits, the other side has most of the volume. Except in the Google and Bing comparison, Google has both. Microsoft is catching up on volume, but their profit situation is actually deteriorating.

Anyway, I think it's good for the world if we have multiple competing financially viable search engines. Unfortunately that describes only Google right now, because neither Bing nor Yahoo search could survive independent of Microsoft's deep, deep pockets and total lack of regard for shareholders.