Aggressive Microsoft Marketing/Lies as Bing Falls Closer to 2% Market Share, Google Gains More Share (ChatGPT Has Only Harmed Bing, Which Has Layoffs Too)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-04-24 12:04:05 UTC
Modified: 2023-04-25 09:28:06 UTC

Example of media 'spam' today (just yet more of that "GOOGLE IS DEAD" talking point; ever since ChatGPT was introduced Bing consistently lost share; it is a de facto censorship and distortion machine):

What has "Bloom" been smokin'?

Consider the public data. Microsoft is down, not up:

Summary: There's a lot of noise in the media today^*; it serves to distract from a fresh round of Microsoft layoffs _____ ^* Microsoft trolls including ‘Gulagboy’ Matthew Garrett also did a lot of a very aggressive trolling in IRC yesterday. This is bordering on the criminal.

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