Microsoft: Our Bing Thing Does "Hey Hi" Now. Asia: Meh. We'd Rather Use Russia's Yandex.
Countless rebrands like "Bing Chat" and "Copilot" did nothing for the cashflow-negative censorship engine (only 'popular' in China because Google isn't there). The winner seems to be Yandex. Microsoft's proxy DuckDuckGo is falling to oblivion.
A year ago (a bit more, but let's say a year) Microsoft bombarded the media, saying Google was "doomed" because of chatbots and that Microsoft was the next best thing.
Bing has since then laid off many staff, it didn't gain any share, and - judging by these numbers - it was Russia's Yandex that more than doubled in usage this past year in Asia. Bing gained just about nothing.
We're basing this on "Search Engine Market Share Asia" from statCounter, but the same is true internationally. Those chatbots are a passing fad and Microsoft tries to rekindle excitement by many rebrands, meaningless gimmicks, and false articles which try to accentuate positives, overstate capabilities, and articulate a bunch of baloney. There's really not much to see here except another Microsoft failure and lots more layoffs. █