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)
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.
Bing recently added Twitter feeds as part of its search results. Today, Federated Media & Bing announced the launch of BingTweets, a website that combines Twitter search results and Bing search results onto one page. Read our review.
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….
Apparently, the Bing Travel service was disrupted earlier today, but Microsoft quickly brought it back to life. This is a good sign that Microsoft seems to be on top of things at the moment, however, some might suggest that backups (although they may be expensive) are essential for such services, and that Microsoft needs to consider that as an option…
As Bing continues to develop and grow, more and more webmasters would want to know how they can improve their site rankings on Bing. Here are 10 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips to increase your website’s ranking on Bing….
Today, Bing introduces Twitter postings as part of its search results. When you search for these folks names in association with Twitter, you’ll see their latest Tweets come up in real time on Bing’s search results. It is a very strategic & intelligent move to add twitter postings as part of Bing’s search results…
