Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft Bing surpassed Baidu to become the largest desktop search engine in China in April 2023, according to foreign media reports, according to data released by StatCounter, a US website traffic monitoring agency. The news also went viral on Weibo. But some netizens also questioned this data.

Microsoft Bing's market share of desktop search engines in China reached an all-time high of 37.4 per cent in April, while Baidu's market share fell to 27.01 per cent, according to StatCounter. Baidu was followed by Sogou, Yandex (Russian search engine), Haosou and Google, with a market share of 16.36%, 7.45%, 6.25% and 5.2%, respectively.

Microsoft has been enhancing Bing's capabilities by integrating the latest technology. In February, the company launched a new version of Bing, which enhances search results by using OpenAI's latest large language model, GPT-4.

A day after the launch of the new version of Bing, the popularity of the Bing app has soared. A few weeks after its launch, Bing's daily active users exceeded the 100 million mark.

Some netizens are skeptical about the news that Microsoft Bing has overtaken Baidu to become the largest desktop search engine in China.

Netizen @ Dianxi, who is certified by Weibo as the founder of Chuanlu, believes that Statcounter's data sampling has been distorted for a long time. For example, it calculates that China's mobile search share ranks second, with 31% of the products being Yandex; 's PC social media market share in China. Pinterest is more than 10 times that of Weibo.

The netizen believes that StatCounter does not have much traffic data in China at all and basically has no value to be quoted.

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