Interesting article about Bing and its growth in 2012 and beyond

[Nomar]

Bing recently became the second most popular search site on the Internet, but is still far behind to Google. Here are three reasons Bing will narrow that gap in 2012.

- Bing partnerships with Facebook and Twitter will pay off
- Bing integration with Xbox and Kinect will help
- Bigger reach in mobile will grow market share

Google fears Bing enough that it will pay Mozilla nearly $1 billion over the next three years to remain the default search engine on Firefox. Google wouldn't pay that money if it didn't recognize that Bing was a formidable competitor.

What are your views on this?

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[bashi]

This is good news, I like Bing and it looks like they are giving Google some serious competition right now. This will only result in better quality for everyone, so its a win win situation.

[Lukehluke]

They appear to be focusing all of their efforts into building their market share in the U.S. but that's about it.

[Nomar]

Well, its a start