2. Bing.com
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Added delay
Queries per Visitor Query refinement Source: Microsoft Bing data from Velocity’09
Revenue per visitor Any clicks
Satisfaction
3. Google
Slowing down search
• Search/user decrease by 0.44%
• Dropped to 0.74% after six weeks
• User did 0.21% fewer searches, even after
we stopped injecting the delay
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