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%.

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.

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.

Chitika Network released a report that Bing users are more likely to click an ad on your site than Google or Yahoo users.

During Bing’s initial launch, a lot of speculators and critics claimed that the spike in traffic was purely due to public interest & curiosity. Bing now appears to be a real competitor to the Google search monopoly. 16.7% of the Internet users from the U.S. now uses Bing for search. Bing’s share of search result pages in the U.S. also climbed to 12.1%. And according to StatCounter, Bing has once again surpassed Yahoo! as the number two search engine provider in the U.S. Furthermore, according to Compete.com, Bing had over 49.5 million unique visitors and a total of 220 million page visits in June.

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.

Bing has obtained enormous publicity and attention since it first came out to the market. However, in comparison to Google….

Here is a document from the Catalyst Group. It is a report summarizing the study performed on 12 individuals who were asked to use both Bing & Google.

Since Bing’s debut on June 1st, it received a lot of publicity and fanfare. According to comScore, Bing’s daily searcher penetration had reached to 16.7% between June 8, 2009 – June 12, 2009.