Apparently, people do use Bing
If you listened in to The Vergecast a couple of weeks ago, you might remember a sidebar discussion on how Android and Windows users in the EU are prompted to choose a default search engine to comply with antitrust regulations. Nothing in the world can make you pick Bing," said The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel with utter certainty. He then invited Vergecast listeners who actually choose Microsoft's search engine over Google's to write to him: if you're a Bing-by-choice kind of person, let me know."
If a company is going to data mine me, I might as well get something out of it
As it turns out, some of our listeners are straight-up enthusiastic Bing users. I know you were joking but I wanted to reach out," a listener named Jimmy...