Summary: The Microsoft fan press lies or at least knowingly deceives about how Microsoft is doing against Google

ACCORDING TO some global metrics and statistics (only approximate), Microsoft continues losing market share to Google (not only in search). But that's not the story Microsoft wants the world to be told. Microsoft has always been an empire of lies.

A Microsoft/Bing-sponsored site cites a Mirosoft-sponsored firm [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] showing only US market share and neglecting to state this clearly, as usual. Bing's real market share is said to be around 3%, but many boosters of Microsoft spend their day pointing to numbrs that are 4 times greater (US-only). The Microsoft/Bing-sponsored site even asks, "Could Microsoft overtake Yahoo?" (yes, that's part of the headline which says "Stats show Bing cracking 11%: Could Microsoft overtake Yahoo?")

It's all part of an exercise in hypnosis and Microsoft uses the same methods to lie about (aggressively belittle) the market share of GNU/Linux. A lot of people wrongly believe that Microsoft has over 10% share in search and that GNU/Linux (desktop) has just 1%. ⬆

Steve Ballmer's presentation slide
from 2009 shows GNU/Linux as bigger than Apple on the desktop