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  "id": "cloudflare-bing-14-percent-search-referrals-on-windows-2025",
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  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/cloudflare-bing-14-percent-search-referrals-on-windows-2025/",
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  "claim": "On Windows, Bing referred about 14% of search traffic and Google 76% (Cloudflare, 2025)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Bing is bigger on desktop\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Cloudflare Radar",
    "title": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "For traffic from “desktop” systems aggregated globally, Google’s market share drops to about 80%, while Bing’s jumps to nearly 11%. This is likely driven by the continued market dominance of Windows-based systems: On Windows, Google refers just 76% of traffic, while Bing refers about 14%.",
  "method": "Traffic observed across Cloudflare's global network (share of requests to sites Cloudflare serves, not of all internet users).",
  "drift": [
    "Referral share to Cloudflare-served sites, worldwide"
  ],
  "interest": "Cloudflare sells network and security services.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "In Cloudflare's 2025 data, Bing referred about 14% of search traffic from Windows devices (Google 76%) and nearly 11% across all desktop systems.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "2025 (year to date, through early December)",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-17",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-17",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}