Baidu and Yandex Have Overtaken Microsoft in Asia
A closer look (2026):
China's and Russia's domestic search engines (or companies that do search) are leapfrogging Microsoft's Bing, which basically can't get anywhere near Google, no matter how many billions Microsoft tosses down some ashtray while rebranding as "Bing Chat" (as if people want slop instead of search that links to authoritative sources). We keep talking about how XBox (as a console) is doomed; how about all the Bing layoffs? Is there a future to this at Microsoft?
Google makes money from ads. Microsoft makes money from... well, it buys its own shares by paying workers in "stock". This won't end well. █