Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
The company’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%, with Yahoo Search currently at 10.22%. For the sake of comparison: Google’s U.S. market share is pegged at 71.47%, and its worldwide share at a whopping 87.62% (vs. 5.62% for Bing and 5.13% for Yahoo).
Are people just test-driving Bing en masse, or does this have anything to do with the fact Bing was forced upon IE6 users (now fixed)? Or is it just because it’s that good and the advertising is already working? Either way, the jump Bing appears to have made since launching merely a couple of days ago is significant, and the drop you see in Google’s share even more so.
Are we witnessing the birth of the first true Google challenger or is this nothing but launch momentum bound to fade away?
(StatCounter claims to measure the search and browsing behavior of over two million users and says it tracks in excess of ten billion pageloads per month over its network of three million websites.)
It is just a very decent service.
Another fact is: it feels ‘mainstream’ as opposed to Google that feels ‘geeky’.
Everybody’s gotten tired of geeks with their stupid and childish Web 2.0 tricks already.
Bing is retarded. Stop using it.
Hey Listen! I agree to Chris.
According to me there is nothing to get excited that Bing has overtaken Yahoo search(according to statcounter). It has happened just because right now online media is giving attention to Bing.
If you bet,Bing will be forgotten if no media hype and marketing is given to it for weeks. And then Yahoo will again regain the 2nd spot without any any media hype.
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Yes, but if you have read all of the articles the marketing isn’t going to go away for awhile and will just increase in volume. Spending over $100 million in advertising will get you places. With that much repetition you will be surprised at how many people with be thinking about Binging then Googling something.
The $100 million in advertising Ask.com spent in 2007 has had little long term effect on their market share. Granted, Ask.com in 2007 was not as good as Bing but I’m skeptical that Bing will be able to make much of a dent in Google’s share.
I think the jump Bing appears to have made is only due good PR…
This reminds me of idiots that claim Linux is the superior OS whilst typing their complaints on a Windows desktop. Fail
and . . . Chris is the first GEEK to respond
I would think all that traffic is coming from IE6. Monopolies (I mean Microsoft) has been successful in the past for that very same reason with MS Office.
Funny, MS has a 90% share and Google has a 90% share… So is Google bad?
st*u, Google has 70 percent market share. Get your claims right.
chris.. your attitude is, as you say “retarded”.
Personally, i’m loyal to no company, no search engine, nothing. What i am loyal to is spending the least amount of time searching for answers when i need them
i don’t care if it’s google, microsoft, yahoo, ask, jeeves, or whomever else that provides me with the correct answers, or the result i need. All i care about is that i get the result, do what i need to do, and carry on living my life.
you’re perfectly entitled to blinker yourself from being open minded, and living your own life as you see fit, but you don’t half look silly when you go spouting off about how we should all do what you want us to.
The Geek following of google are afraid… hahahaha… it’s funny they are giving every excuse to claim the stats are false. I see the Google Geeks are not interested in competition and innovation but in having their fanboyish wishes satisfied. I was using Google but now I use Bing, it is very good competition and makes alot of searches easier. This is definitely a Push Google needed and we are all winners in this game.
im sorry, but Bing really doesnt make searches easier for me. For example i recently looked up “Hulu” to watch some videos, and all it does is give me links to stuff like forum conversations that had the word hulu in it. Google search, or hell even yahoo search didn’t give me such issues, and it has happened with other searches too. I will give to the fact that once you have already search/been to said site, it takes you there much faster on returns to said sites, but I dunno, that just doesnt really cut it for me. But hey if it works for some people, i say let them use it
I agree. It is a decent service.
Bing has a good user interface and also some interesting features.
I really like the fact that Microsoft merged some of Powerset UI features with Bing. Also I like the image search and the Shopping sections.
Overall it is a good product with a nice user experience and a polished UI.
Cheers!
just lol.
People are testing that’s it.
You make articles with 5 day stats.
Like chrome did, it has risen and now it is little
My chrome traffic has steadily increased across all of my sites
What are “stupid and childish Web 2.0 tricks”?
I’ll have you know that the world you live in today wouldn’t be possible without geeks.
but the world we live in today is perfectly possible without web 2.0.
Disclaimer: Nothing against geeks.
But the world we live in today is not exactly something to be proud of, so if it was not possible without geeks, then did geeks get us here
@Alex: You sir… are an
Do this report again in about 3 months.. everone will be back to google..
I gave “bing” a try and it’s just another search engine.
I use Google for everything and love it and will
continue to use it.
Bing just does not ring my chimes.
Read this review
http://teentech...ertaking-yahoo/
Bing is awesome.
I like the background images.
Read this review
http://teentech...30;..ing-yahoo/
Here is another review for Bing, this should help too. It is done by a person who knows quite a bit about search engines.
http://www.expe...-search-review/
You are all retarted…BING is ONLY on the statistic AT ALL because EVERY windows machine in the country started forcing you to use it right away..
the default *(Most people wouldn’t bother to change) is the ONLY reason it got any hits.
and it’s the WORST search engine ever.
I did a search for “Extend the Schema for exchange” and ALL it brought up are ads for Extenz…..seriously botched product launch way to go MS!
That is interesting seeing that google is dropping. No doubt bing were going to spike quickly with all the press they have been getting, but assumed most people wouldn’t jump so quickly from google for their search queries.
Although I have found myself using it in the last week if I don’t find what i’m after on google … although I usually don’t find the results any better on bing.
Google dropping could be from the fact that the measure is in percent. If the number of google searches stays stable and bing searches increase, the percentage goes down…
Yes scale does matter if it is percent.. By the way, if you do not find it in G or in B, try AAfter search.
If every ie6 user was switched to Bing and IE6 has around 20% of the browser market, doesn’t this make a lot of sense? These people are dumb enough already for using IE6, they likely don’t know how to switch their search engine..
Do you think those people are also accurately measured on StatCounter? It seems like StatCounter’s service would not measure IE6 usage accurately as they probably skew towards early adopters.
I’m not sure but I saw somewhere that IE6 is still somewhere around 20% of the net and that makes sense, it seems. I bet you’ll find statcounter and most other metrics reporting healthy percentages of IE6 users and that nobody is close to 0 for that one.
Also — if anyone sees this can they confirm one way or the other whether IE7 and IE8 users are being persuaded (or forced) to use Bing as their default engine. I read somewhere that some IE7 users are switching automatically. I’d love to find out but I’ve had a bad habit of installing Ubuntu on all of the Windows computers that come anywhere near me recently.
Forgive me if this is a ’stupid’ question, but I’m curious as to why people are still using IE6 in the first place? Wouldn’t people have moved on to IE7 or IE8 through automatic updates?
I have no idea. Though I’ve heard that folks with pirated copies of windows, especially in Asia, turn off automatic updates. When I backpacked through India in 2003/2004, folks were still using Windows 98 in many of the internet cafes.
The reason windows 98 is used because they have a lot of old crufty hardware 5 to 10 years old running Pentium3 or 486s with like 32 or 64MB of ram.
XP won’t run on that.
yeah but its a little more complicated than that, and there was life before XP. This was 2004, almost 5 years after Windows 2000 was released. And NT 4 actually came out before 98 and had similar hardware requirements — so there was a lot of hardware out there that could run either of these considerably better operating systems. Chances are that if it shipped with ‘98, it could run win2k or nt4 reasonably well.
Also in general in India and in most other places outside of America and Western Europe, when people find something that works, they stick with it until they absolutely have to switch. For example, one of the most popular car models in India (the Ambassador) has been virtually identical for about 50 years. Its different now (their market opened up big in the mid ’90’s) but its still nowhere as sold on the planned obsolescence model as we are here in America. If something works and they know it works, they’d rather go with that known quantity than taking a risk on a new thing.
And neither will IE7 or IE8
Businesses, government.
I could expand on that, but it would be redundant.
That’s a good point. Some large enterprises I’ve seen still list Netscape 7 as an official browser.
And many government organizations still use IE for some mind-boggling reasons. In theory you’d think they’d be the first folks to jump on the open-source bandwagon.
IE does not autoupdate, you have to update it yourself. And Bing is being force fed to IE users with IE8. It is a great search engine but I hate that when I open IE 2 tabs open 1 being my home page and the next being bing, could anyone explain the WHY in this to me.
I think you mean “decision engine”.
Live was forced on us as default in our IE7 browsers at a 1,000+ seat company. Now, it’s Bing instead.
I’m sure Microsoft’s market share powers are playing a big role in the surge.
if the default at the company was “windows live search” then it will be Bing now because live search has been retired…..what was the search egine before Bing?
Bing does give better results for certain items (e.g voucher codes), whereas Google comes up with a load of junk.
Goog should be worried, I’m sure only a small fraction of the population even knows Bing exists yet.
Microsoft changed Live.com and MSN search to use bing.com.
Every new PC comes with the IE home page set to msn.com. Most users never change this.
Please update the graph to show MSN search and Live, which are now at ~0.
The reality is ‘relevancy rules’. Those using Bing now are only trying it out because of all the media attention, lets see the stats in a few months time after they DISCOVER Bing not providing good results!
That would be accurate, except for the fact that they DO provide good results.
@anon: +1
When I search my blog title on Google, my blog is the top result. When I search for it on bing, a few of the entries are listed, but it doesn’t pull up the homepage, unless I type the full address into the search bar, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Does Google have something set up where it remembers what you visit and prioritizes that in your search results?
Yes Google uses advanced targeting based on user location and behavioral habits. This is simple to see by doing a couple of searches and then going to a friends computer or even by clearing your cache. The natural and paid listing will change.
I dont understand where these market share figures come from. Google at only 71%? Bing on 16%?!
From our ppc campaigns we consistently find google is 88-90% and yahoo/msn fight for about 8%, and then the small tier ones for the last 2%.
It’s easily to be misled by yahoo’s claim that they ‘reach 80% of the internet population’. Maybe indirectly yes, but definitely not with ppc click volumes.
You also have to understand that every search engine has different “typical user demographics”. This translates into higher click through rates on certain search engines. I have always seen more clicks and better conversion on Google. Yahoo has brought more actual traffic then Microsoft on a consistent basis but the traffic from Microsoft tends to convert better then that of Microsoft.
Bing is the new Google!
I am now using Bing on a trial basis exclusively for my search needs. So far it seems to work acceptably. I like Bing’s video search feature too.
I will make a decision in a couple of weeks whether to stick with Bing, but so far I like it.
It is not about sticking with a search engine. If you want a decent search result then you gotta search you query through various search engines!
That is not true. If you have have access to the best why waste time on multiple mediocre ones?
@BombayN it is impossible for a search engine to get all the best from billions of web pages.
It is already proven that searching multiple search engines do a lot better job than one engine if you are doing a research on a topic like a disease or its cures.
If you want I can send you the references to the academic papers proving that.
Subhankar Ray
AAfter Search
I believe you. I will google the study
Maybe Bing will make a breakthrough because of porn !
Porn? You can change your preferences in top right corner: Extras -> Preferences. Change option for SafeSearch.
As much as I wanted to not like Microsoft’s new search engine when I first heard of it, I’ve found myself using Bing more and more since its launch. Google is still my default for text search, but I think I prefer the image, video, and shopping engines to Google’s.
Exclusively trying Bing here for a month or two. So far it’s as good and better than Google in many ways, especially media search (videos, pictures, news).
Sometimes I do revert back to Google if I need something urgent and Bing doesn’t help fast enough. One of those times was related to spelling (Google spell checker is much better than Bing) and the other for directions.
Overall though, it is great to see Microsoft finally getting Search.
Cheers
Sahar
Bido.com – Co founder
Wow, MS isn’t fucking around with Bing. I didn’t expect it to overtake Yahoo at all for quite a while, if ever.
@John B … if they were only testing it out it would not take that long to get a certain drop… remember cuil.com and wikia.com which where shouting they could easily beat Google? They did not deliver what Bing now is delivering. The reviews Bing.com gets are definitely a lot better then the above examples. I think it is a lot better then Yahoo… and in some respects it is in the same league with Google. I think Google will have a hard time the coming months.
I think ‘cuil’ worked too hard at finding an oddly pronounced name, to try to appeal to people’s idea of ‘cool’, instead of focusing on what really matters: results, in this case literally.
I changed, and for most queries Bing is as good if not better than Google.
Is it better? Probably not, that some queries aren’t as good as Google means it’s not. Many people just want an alternative, even if it’s only 95% as good.
1) Bing is FORCED to IE6 Users… they represent a huge chunk of users (someboady even suggested 20%). As soon as this is solved (as even M$ can’t ignore angry users for ever…), their share is going only DOWN…
2) These are stats for 4 days…. 4 DAYS!!! I hate M$ for everything they have done to me as a user for more than 20 years, but out of plain curiosity, even I tried Bing, just to see what it’s allabout… Its not great, its surely NOT even close to threatening Google, so I won’t ever go back to using it… Like me, millions of other people tries this for the first 2-3 days, to see what its all about… SHARE WILL GO DOWN…
If you check out stats on Browser Market Share by Version then IE6 is currently running a little under 17%.
For Enterprise users still on IE6 – yes there are many out there because IE7 didn’t work with some browser-based enterprise apps – The default got switched automatically and many users may be prevented from changing the configuration of their browser.
With that scenario the change under the hood by Microsoft to point to Bing can make a massive change in usage on Bing.
You and the others that say forcing Bing on IE6 users is the cause for the spike are clueless. Anyone still using IE6 would have been using Live.com, so there is no spike, but merely a change in the name of the search engine on the chart.
Why do the Microsoft detractors feel that was an evil plan? Every software vendor on the planet has a vested interest in geting there users to adopt the new product as soon as possible. Does anyone complain when their computer updates to the latest version of iTunes, Flash Player, etc? Hell no! Especially not the people who read tech blogs; they want new updates ASAP.
Personally, I say use the best tool for the job. I am no more pro Microsoft, than I am Pro Google, Apple or Adobe. They all offer compelling products and have their place in my toolbox.
Do us all a favor and save you negative, unconstructive comments for yourself. Instead of bashing a company for trying to improve technology, why don’t you look inthe mirror and ask youself the following question: “What have you done for humanity lately?”
Techcrunch should have a “like” button at the side of each comment. Your comment is the most sensible one i’ve seen in a long time. It seems people have too much loyalty with some companies rather than using products for what they’re best at.
Didn’t IE6 users that had google as a default search get hijacked as well? I believe there was an article a few days ago about this here. So when MS does fix it I am sure most will go back to their search engine of choice.
@Hmmm: You are incorrect. MSN and Live are not represented at all in the graph. The chart only reflects new Bing users … not old MS users.
Sorry … I see it is referred to as “Windows Live” as opposed to the search engine’s real name of “Live.com”. (”Windows Live” contains more components than just search.)
For more detail and a far better analysis of this non-happening:
http://searchen...t-exactly-20566
“..a more complete chart from Hitwise showing daily visits, with Live and MSN broken out. The chart appears to reflect that Bing has taken over for MSN and Live Search but that it has not gained any significant share according to Hitwise” and other charts show Yahoo solidly in second position with MSN/Live/Bing a far distant third by several orders of magnitude.
I think something BInG is comming to town…
I wonder if they are going to make a Christmas commercial for Bing. I think it has a nice ring to it for a Christmas theme…
I concur… I’m doing the trial… and I believe it out-performs google in many areas… I also really like the image, video, and text result layouts.
I’m bummed, because I use chrome (at work on the PC), but chrome does not yet allow Bing to be the default browser…. I think that is when it would get the true test.
PS: I’m not an MSFT fan… but I don’t discriminate against good software/services.
**browser = search engine
**video = not video
You can add a new engine and then make it default in Chrome. I did.
Click options under the ‘wrench’. Deafult Search –>Manage. Search Engines window will pop-up. Click “Add”. Ad name and url. URL = http://www.bing...com/search?q=%s
You can then make Bing default in the drop down menu. Finally, I would recommend adding a shortcut to Google as well. My shortcut is G.
After this setup…when I type in keywords into the omnibox and hit enter it automatically searches Bing. If I type “g keywords” it search google. Its great.
I’ve been using Bing all week and I’ve found it to be as quick and the results as good as Google all week with one exception. I was looking for a news article that I had read about 3 years ago involving two companies. These same two companies have been in other articles a handful of times since then. Bing had trouble finding the specific article I was looking for. Google had it on page 3 of its results.
Otherwise Bing has been very good. I’d like to see them make it easier for me to launch a farecast price check. I want to be able to type farecast ORD SFO 6/9/09 4 and have it return the cheapest flight, times and other details plus its price prediction along with other results. I’d like to see them make it easier for me to search their cashback shopping.
All in all, I’m impressed with Bing. I’ve also been impressed with the business team surrounding the product. PR has been good. Advertisements have been good. The strategy has been good – I like how they’ve taken two of the ‘cash-cow’ categories for search monetization, Retail and Travel, and are offering a fundamentally better solution than Google can offer. If Bing takes a % of these $$ queries it has a big effect on Google. I suspect big distribution deals are next.
For the first time you can see a path where Google could face a serious challenge against a product as good and a company with the $$ to fight the uphill battle of gaining share.
That is so not true. It is very easy to change your default search engine in Chrome, if you know what you are doing, albeit not quite as easier as most browsers. In Chrome, click the wrench icon, then select the Options menu item. The first tab allows you to change the home page and default search engine.
Use bing.com for the keyword and the following for the URL string:
http://www.bing...earch?&q=%s
Or an even easier way is to simple use the Live.com entry, which will redirect you to Bing.com
Anyway, hope this helps.
Tools->Options->Basics->Default Search->Manage
I must have had this tab open longer than I thought…
So BING = B.I.N.G. = Bing Is Not Google ?
nice naming ms.. lol
Boy did that get old eerily fast.
its actually not an acronym….its more like the sound of a bright idea…..
You can’t use the acronym in the acronym, you dope.
It’s called a recursive acronym. Ever heard of GNU?
It stands for “BECAUSE It Is Not Google”…I don’t like monopolies in any industry, including search.
Whether not very accurate or whatever for text-search, for some things Bing is just too cool! I just found this and wanted to share with TechCrunch readers. This is a search query for “fathers day” that I entered to find out just what date it is on and it gives a “** days remaining” answer.
http://www.bing...y&form=QBLH
yup, I like that about Bing….if you search for something that has more than 1 category bing will seperate them for you,
eg: if you search for independence day (remember there’s a movie with the same name) bing put out categories like independence day cast, sountrack, trailers, quotes, script
this makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for real quickly
I found it a good alternative to Google if not better. If yuo go to this link, you can test them side by side and come to your own conclusion http://tinyurl.com/nrwzlj
So BING = B.I.N.G. = Bing Is NoW Google!
akakaka, this is a new one
/not sarcasm
The time when stickiness to the Google brand will be severely tested.
For more on Bing vs Google, you can visit http://www.wblg...19.blogspot.com
that didn’t take long, but it’s new so it will trend up quicker. But to be fair, yahoo search is a mess anyway so people who don’t like Google are probably look for an easy alternative.
the fact is I LOVE to browse bing.com and it welcomes me very nicely with speed,background pic…cool colors and then it surprises me with the search results..its a fifth day and I havent touched google…and i dont see the need to go there. Bing is refreshing..new..and has a potential to be the number two search engine..
It just a bing..so kool thats it.
I think I’m beginning to understand where much of that $100 million of bing advertising money is being spent…..
at this point if MS would integreate facebook into bing in a non intrusive way, It would be well on its way to closing the gap even more.
very true.
Bing = porn search for the masses
++ on that. Bing really is the porn search master. LoL!
Bing = Bad News for Google for more reasons than one.
1) It is a very good search engine and will take market share.
2) If Microsoft can do it, so can someone else.
3) Its quick, almost instant popularity, indicates how many people are looking for something better than Google.
i don’t know how bing is preforming in the us or wherever you guys as from but in belgium it doesn’t seem to do it right. For a lot of things it doesn’t have the related searches, they have text coming over the first video in video search (it the sort by option). And after all, if you can’t find it on google, the chances are small that you’ll find it on bing.
Like i don’t use windows i wont use bing either, out off principle for it being microsoft… They should start focussing on their main target again an that is making a smooth easy working os, in stead of trying to be there in every segment of the market… not even apple or google cover it all…
@r-vm, I truly feel sorry for you. I, too, experienced that in one session suddenly when it began giving crappy results and showing none of the bells and whistles (related searches, history, etc.), so I went to an Incognito session, which got it back to normal.
But I think that is because I’m in the US. Many people outisde the US are still complaining that they don’t see all the features there.
“Like i don’t use windows i wont use bing either, out off principle for it being microsoft…”
so by what you just said, if Microsoft came out with the cure for cancer you wouldn’t use it even if you needed a cure because it’s from Microsoft? that just shows how ignorant you are. Its sad that this wold have people who thinks like you. check this: the founder of this Microsoft that you love to hate is 1 of the biggest philanthropist this world has ever seen. go check out the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and see the work that they are doing.
Amen!
This new data seems rather ironic considering Carol Bartz’s (Yahoo! CEO) condemnation of Bing as ‘not interesting enough’ on wednesday. http://bit.ly/ytT82
I have to say that i still think Bing won’t make as much of an in-road into search marketshare as MS would like, people are comfortable with what is already there.
Same thing could have been said about MySpace and many people are now going the Facebook road…
yahoo is part of the walking dead
Yeah, methinks Ms. Bartz might be realizing she may have played “hard to get” for too long….
I don’t know. Part of me wonders if it’s not just hype. It seems like articles like this are sorta driving the users to Bing. Maybe that’s how it always works, I guess…
I’ve been mildly pleased with Bing, but I’m familiar with how to get the results that I want on Google, and I have no reason to learn a new system when the one I’ve got is working very well. Bing’s fine, but I’d need a substantial improvement on Google before I’d be willing to switch.
Ya, it’ll be like a new girlfriend or boyfriend, once you get to know them you start looking around again
I’m on a trial too. Finding it good so far.
Bing is great and all and I am using it now as my default search engine in Firefox. However, I find the extra stuff surrounding my search results a tad bit distracting. I am not able to focus on what I am looking for. I favor Google’s minimalistic approach over Bing for some strange reason. I will stick with Bing for now though and see how things go.
If you’ve got access to webstats, why not check them out and see how Bing is doing on your site? I looked at stats for the larger sites I have access to. Since June 1, two had more Bing visits than Yahoo(although in one case it was more by only 1 visit). Four had Bing traffic that was half of Yahoo’s. Of course, those sites also don’t seem to rank as well at Bing (got to work on that), so overall I’d have to say that what I’m seeing matches up with StatCounter. It remains to be seen if it sticks.
Honestly speaking I hated to use ‘Live’ search. But I see ‘Bing’ something very different, it looks like as if it’s not from Microsoft. It’s really smart and I feel that it could read users minds.
I think ‘Bing’ will be doing good as MS is promised to continue to develop ‘Bing’. So may be sooner a large internet population will be ‘Binging’
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Just wait till they will release Windows 7… I think that might also increase traffic for Bing and another blow in Google’s face… according to some sources RC2 of Win7 will be launched at the 11th of June.
there will be no RC2
Nah,
it’s just because microsfot made Live search and MSN both redirect to bling as default search engine. see for your self (also notice how those two dropped to zero in your graph…) nothing excpet bling now gets those two search volumes combined…
shish… nothing revolutionary about it
dont’ fool yourself, msn and live search were the same not two. and if you know how to read a graph, look at the correlation between google and bing….do you notice the rise of bing, and the decline of google? surely, you must of noticed that.
I refuse to even open bing.com, no matter what. It’s a Microsoft service and I’ll avoid anything coming from Microsoft as long as I have a useful alternative. And Google is doing a good job for me.
I don’t need kinky background images or fancy design toys on my search page. All I want is results, good and fast. Google is delivering that and so there is no reason for me to feed Microsoft.
don’t be so close minded. bing and decide if you like it or not..
How about trying out the site before you decide idiot
It would be funny if it’s not sad.
It’s like you are saying: “I have my bicycle, it serves purpose (takes me from A to B), and I don’t want a car… I don’t want even to consider getting a car….”
Typical hippy thinking. Why so closed minded? It not only dis benefits you, but may hurt others down the line.
Who is writing this crap. This is the second article using unreliable sources.
StatCounter gets their data from local analytics tagged on their network of sites – NOT behavior of people online. Their US network is 40% of the 2 million sites. If you think that they have a robust list of sites they have tagged think again. So all they are really doing is reporting what traffic those sites are getting – like dad’s bagel shop that gets 100 visits a month.
Why not publish your own Google analytics data? That must show the same as well…..
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@ Vurdlak… even then… it still is at position 2… so it is gaining in favor of Yahoo and Google. Look at the graphs
Guess what replaced my Google default search engine in firefox??? You are right …. BING!
Wow. Five short paragraphs, and *six* internal links?
Doesn’t Arrington give you guys any base pay at all?
The striking out search bit is getting old.
Any chance this is just curiosity traffic?
Yeah, probably a lot of it is… I tried it a few times, its ok.. A decent competitor, but it seems the results aren’t as accurate as Google some of the time… but I’m sure that will come
Bing! Microsoft wins on point the first round of this new match.
I am glued to my computer waiting for the second round to start.
I bing, by the way.
I’ve been using it all this week and so far I really like it.
Yeah in some instances Google is still a little more accurate, but I find Bing to be pretty good and the presentation is way better than Google.
Microsoft isn’t out to replace Google, they just want to be a strong number 2 to Google and with Bing I think they might do it.
I can’t wait for my Bing Mail e-mail address!!!
but seriously, the only reason why bing has elevated traffic is the publicity it has been receiving. If yahoo started making a bunch of PR statements then they would leapfrog ahead of bing. Seriously though, I want a bing email address.
You mean @bmail.com ?
Are the stars counting page loads or searches? If it’s only page loads, then the increase is not due to popularity. I have to use IE to use my Netflix ‘watch now’ service. When I opened IE last night, my second tab was on Bing. I thought it was just smart marketing on Microsoft’s part.
I hope they aren’t counting page loads, because that would mean Google’s numbers are artificially inflated, too. Shouldn’t the stats reflect how many searches are done, and not what people’s home pages are set to?
it doesn’t reflex page loads
Then what is it reflecting? After scouring their website, the only relevant words I find are “pageloads” and “marketshare”.