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Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-good-name dept.

nk497 writes "Microsoft's newly revamped search tool Bing has already overtaken Yahoo in the US and globally, according to StatsCounter. The net traffic watcher said Bing has topped Yahoo 16.28% to 10.22% in the US, and 5.62% to 5.13% globally. Though the firm noted Bing's popularity may drop off after the excitement wears off, the firm also said: 'Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second biggest search engine within five years. Following the breakdown in talks to acquire Yahoo at a cost of $40 billion it looks as if he may have just achieved that with Bing much sooner and a lot cheaper than anticipated.' Google, of course, still leads by a considerable margin."

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  1. Not really by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's hard to see how someone wrote this post today - when the same site shows that Bing surpassing Yahoo! only lasted for a day. TechCrunch already pointed this out yesterday. Bing may or may not have a big impact - but I think it will take some more time before we know whether it will or not. There is certainly a very long way to go before it even begins to approach google.

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    1. Re:Not really by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 4, Informative

      I've submitted stories before to only have them accepted up to four days later. That's probably what happened here. Shame the editors didn't catch it.

    2. Re:Not really by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's not what happened in this case - tfa is dated today.

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    3. Re:Not really by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

      Apparently it is the same search engine they had when it was MSN

      It's not. You might have missed the story, but Microsoft had actually bought out PowerSet to replace the old search engine, and that's what powering Bing.

  2. Not so fast! Has bing bung? by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not so fast. Same source indicates the bing has already fallen back down to (less than) live.com levels.

    TechCrunch: Bing was #2 for a day then Yahoo regained its place as Bing fell.

    "As Matt Cutts (who yes, works for Google) points out in the comments, StatCounter updates every few hours, so there is also data for today already. And itâ(TM)s more bad news for Bing. Itâ(TM)s now down to 5.65% in the U.S. â" yes, thatâ(TM)s less than what Live.com was at last month."

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  3. Re:StatCounter's Baidu Stats is Alarming by aodhan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm from StatCounter and I would just like to address your concern. The detection for baidu was added on the 5th March 2009 at 21.00 GMT. When a new detection is added it is noted on the visual graph (but not in the csv download).
    Also if you look at the stats just for China you can easily see Baidu's dominance there.

  4. "Microsoft+Antitrust" by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Informative
    Was a test search I entered into bing to compare with what came out for google and yahoo.

    google returned these three first:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_antitrust_case http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust.html

    So I compared that to Yahoo:

    http://www.microsoft-antitrust.gov/ http://www.zdnet.com.au/tag/anti_trust-eu-microsoft.htm http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39202361,00.htm

    Bing returned these three first:

    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legalnews.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/legal_newsroomarchive.mspx?case=Government%20Anti-Trust%20Case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_case

    If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. - Joseph Goebbels

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  5. Does "IT Pro" run paid ads as articles? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some of the articles in "IT Pro" magazine seem to me to be ads. Here are other articles:

    Can Microsoft make a success out of Silverlight? Quote: "... Microsoft's Silverlight weighs in at just a four-megabyte download, and apparently takes just 10 seconds to install." Another quote: "So how has Silverlight fared, and can it really topple Flash?" Silverlight is far, far behind Flash.

    Can Google or Microsoft get any bigger? Quote: "... Google, along with Microsoft, is so large and so dominant in its sectors, that both firms are hitting a point where their potential for profitable growth is limited." Another quote: "Certainly the pair of them own their key markets, ..." Google and Microsoft are not a "pair".

    This is the article, published today, to which this Slashdot story linked: Has Bing already overtaken yahoo? But that article no longer exists, apparently. Now that link takes visitors to another article: UPDATED: Bing and Yahoo battle it out for second in search. Quote: "One stats firm has said Microsoft's Bing has already caught up to rival Yahoo, just a week after launch - but it's since slipped back to third." Bing hasn't "slipped back to third", Bing has dived in the ratings, and is now far behind Yahoo.

  6. Re:StatCounter's Baidu Stats is Alarming by aodhan · · Score: 5, Informative

    We talk about our methodology here.
    Our stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 4 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites. From this sample we analyze the sources of the referring traffic to compile our search engine reports.

  7. Uh, evidence? by TropicalCoder · · Score: 4, Informative

    Summarized PDF