Since Bing’s debut in July, it continues to gain market share slowly. In August, Bing gained 0.4% of the search market, to achieve 9.3% of total search query volumes in the U.S. In the same month, Google’s market shared dropped by one point to 64.6% while Yahoo’s market share remained unchanged at 19.3%.
In comparison to other major search engines, Bing showed a steady growth of nearly a half-point market share gain every month for the past three months. Bing grew faster than Google for the first time in August, with a 31.9% annual increase in search queries compared to 21.6% growth for Google and 16.8% for Yahoo.
It is worthwhile to mention that while Bing might be growing faster than Google, Google still dominates the U.S. search market with 64.6% and the combine market share of Yahoo! & Bing is only 28.6%.
U.S. Core Search Share, August 2009 (Source: comScore qSearch)
The engineers at Microsoft are working on a new feature where users have the ability to share search results. They are calling this search sharing feature “Bing & Ping”. From the photos provided, it appears that the results can be shared via Facebook, Twitter, and email.
Nicholas Kerr from Bing’s search blog wrote:
We at the Bing team are firm believers in the idea that the only thing better than searching with Bing is sharing what you’ve found with your friends. That’s why we’ve been working on a potential new feature for Bing that does just that in a couple of clicks, which we call Bing & Ping.
Let’s break this down with an example: say you use Bing’s Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy’s favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily. Say you want to “delicately” remind him of their less-than-stellar moves with the ball. Bing & Ping lets you share this NFL instant answer through various places, like Facebook, Twitter, or even email in as few as two clicks. Reminding someone that their team has no defense has never been easier (in spite of the screenshot below, we of course aren’t talking about our beloved Seahawks).
From analyzing the data from Chitika, it seems that Google is still the preferred search engine even though Bing & previously MSN Live is set as the default search engine for Internet Explorer. Even with the Microsoft & Yahoo! search alliance, Bing will only have a total of 22% of all searches from Internet Explorer in comparison to Google’s 74.2% Internet Explorer web search.
A closer examination at the search data for Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing reveals that Google dominates 65% of the U.S. search market. While at the same time, Yahoo and Microsoft combined sites produce 28% of the searches in the U.S. In terms of overall search users, Yahoo! and Microsoft has a 73.3% searcher penetration while Google has a 84.0% daily searcher penetration. Google on average generates 54.5 searches per month per internet user while Yahoo! and Microsoft produces 26.9 searches per person per month.
U.S. Search Market Overview for Top 3 Core Search Engines June 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch
Microsoft submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum requesting the transfer of the domain name bing-news.com from Prakash Prasad Timilsina. The dispute resolution panel found Microsoft to be the rightful owner of the domain name. As we speak, Bing-News.com is in the process to be transferred to the Microsoft Corporation.
BongoBing, a web-based shopping platform developed by The Laptop Company, Inc. has filed a request for an extension of time to oppose Microsoft in its efforts to register a trademark for the name “Bing” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has effectively granted the extension request until October 28, 2009.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses the search agreement with Yahoo! and what it will mean to customers, advertisers and the industry. Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz discusses the agreement and what it means to Yahoo! and its customers.
Earlier today, a new search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! was confirmed with the following press release. Here is the press release and the summary.
As has been reported over the last week or so, Google is working on developing a web-based operating system, and making it available to users for FREE!! Its also been said that the new system might be ready as early as 2010….
As a major step forward in introducing Bing to its users, Microsoft has upgraded its QuickAdd feature from Hotmail with a number of features from its Bing search engine, including Bing Maps, Videos, Restaurants, etc…..
At the current moment, IE (IE6+IE7+IE8) all together holds only 54.4% of the web browser market which is a 11.4% drop since March, 2009. The majority of that lost market share was captured by Firefox 3.0, which currently has 27.6% market share. While this was occurring, Bing has actually increased market penetration in both the U.S. and around the world.
