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Bing Grows Faster Than Google

BingDevelop — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:50:53 +0000

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)

Google	64.6%	-0.1% m/m	+1.3% y.y
Yahoo	19.3%	0.0% m/m	-0.4% y/y
Microsoft	9.3%	+0.4% m/m	+0.9% y/y
AOL	3.0%	-0.01% m/m	-1.3% y/y
Ask	3.9%	0.03% m/m	-0.4% y/y

Video Interview With Microsoft Proudct Manager – Norman Law

BingDevelop — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:13:37 +0000

Norman Law, Microsoft Bing Product Manager, talks about Bing's focus and future prospects in the embedded video.

Share Your Search Results With “Bing & Ping”

BingDevelop — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:16:29 +0000

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).

Google Dominates Internet Explorer, Bing & Yahoo! Lags Behind

BingDevelop — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:17:51 +0000

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.

Google, Bing & Yahoo! Search Data Overview

BingDevelop — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:34:13 +0000

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
	Searcher Penetration	Share of Searches	Searches per Searcher
Total Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	70.5
Google Sites	84.0%	65.0%	54.5
Microsoft Sites + Yahoo! Sites(ombined)	73.3%	28.0%	26.9
Yahoo! Sites	56.5%	19.6%	24.5
Microsoft Sites	41.4%	8.4%	14.3

Search Engine Preference Based on Operating Systems

BingDevelop — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:36:13 +0000

Chitika analyzed 163,211,927 searches – a sample of the Chitika network’s search data from July 30th through August 16th – based on operating systems.

Search %:	Google	Yahoo	Bing	AOL	Ask	Total
Windows	78.54%	10.37%	8.01%	1.54%	1.55%	100%
Mac	93.00%	4.96%	1.13%	0.21%	0.70%	100%
Linux	94.61%	3.48%	0.77%	0.07%	1.07%	100%

Microsoft Shuts Down Bing-News.com

BingDevelop — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:21:32 +0000

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 Tries To Stop Bing Trademark

BingDevelop — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:34:52 +0000

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.

Steve Ballmer & Carol Bartz discusses the Search Deal

BingDevelop — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:34:44 +0000

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.

Microsoft Bing & Yahoo! Search Deal: Press Release

BingDevelop — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:34:54 +0000

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.

Bing chases Yahoo, ends June at no.3

shail — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:41:00 +0000

As reported in the Toronto Star and several other websites, Bing has had a decent June after capturing 8.4% of U.S. Internet searches...

10 Questions to Bing

BingDevelop — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:55:10 +0000

We asked an official spokesperson at Microsoft 10 questions about Bing and this is the response we got back.

Google’s “Chrome” to compete with Microsoft?

shail — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:49:42 +0000

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....

Hotmail Gets Bing

shail — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:27:04 +0000

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.....

IE Loses Market Share While Bing Stays Strong

BingDevelop — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:32:27 +0000

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.