Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

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."

Comments

Re:Not really

[m.ducharme]

I find it really easy to disable Microsoft's search engine.

1) Open IEx
2) search for "firefox" or "opera" or whatever
3) click the first link that has "download" in the description.
4) download and install.

It's been working like a charm for years now.