GOOGLE vs. BING
Google v. Bing
Google vs. Microsoft (Bing): Search engine wars
Google is not simply a search engine company: it is synonymous with searching the web much like Coca-Cola is synonymous with soda. However, the software giant Microsoft is attempting to outflank Google by introducing a rival search engine called Bing. Microsoft has floundered in the past when it has moved outside of its software 'comfort zone.' Despite becoming an incredibly successful company thanks to Microsoft Windows, it has failed to unseat Apple as the industry leader in the all-important music, smartphone, and tablet markets. Microsoft is desperately seeking to diversify its assets, given that PCs may soon become obsolete, due to the explosion of mobile computing. Google is its primary competitor in the search engine market.
Porter's five forces of competition
Bargaining power of buyers
In the search engine marketplace, the buying power of web-surfers is extremely high. It is very easy for a web-surfer to select another search engine using his or her browser. It costs nothing for a user to 'vote with her fingertips' and select another search engine if one proves unsatisfactory. Or, an information consumer can simply use two search engines for the same search. Since search engines are free, there is no immediate financial incentive to use one over the other. People rarely use multiple search engines and frequently use one as their default option all of the time.
Bargaining power of suppliers
Search engines are an intellectual product, and thus, other than intellectual capital, there is no cost of input goods that is prohibitive.
Rivalry amongst competitors
Google so dominates the online search engine market, it is difficult to call Microsoft a truly viable competitor. "It's not clear any amount of advertising can help Microsoft win a bigger slice of searches and their related advertising revenue, which could help pull its unprofitable online division into the black" (Mintz 2009). Despite the fact that unlike Microsoft, Google does not formally advertise the benefits of using its search engine, it still has the lion's share of the search engine marketplace. Google had 66.5% of the U.S. search engine market in April of 2013. Bing had 17.3%, an increase from last year's 15.4. The major third rival, Yahoo, "had a 13.5% share, but they have dropped by 1.5% in the last year, as they are now sitting at 12% for April 2013" (Slegg 2013). However, rather than encroaching upon Google usage, Microsoft seems mainly to be swapping users with its 'also ran' Yahoo. "Yahoo and Microsoft are merely swapping market share between themselves, rather than making a dent in Google's dominance" (Slegg 2013).
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