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Bing Gaining Market Share Faster
sopssa sends along a TechCrunch report on comScore qSearch numbers indicating that Bing is currently gaining market share faster than ever before. "In December, Microsoft's search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of US search queries. That makes five straight months of steady share gains for Bing since it launched — Bing's share is up 2.7 percent in total since May, 2009. Google gained only 0.2 percent to end the month with 65.7 percent market share. What is even more interesting is if you look at year-over-year query growth rates for each search engine. Bing's growth is actually accelerating. Its growth rate in query volume was 49.4 percent in December."
The other day I opened a fortune cookie..."Learn chinese: bing = disease".
Apparently the answer is a resounding "NO."
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
Yes, I've always found it difficult to click the picture of google with the drop-down arrow and select another search provider from the many options present. And even worse is when I want to add another one, like MS's latest cash cow, requiring me to then click "Manage search engines..." and then "Get more search engines". Whole thing is counter-intuitive, I tell ya.
On the gains, didn't something happen recently to lock a lot of smartphones into Bing? Can't remember the article.
Like Firefox, Opera and Chrome do with Google? It's not hard to change search engine in IE, btw
Hey....
Shut up.
Here's another take, just as meaningless:
Using bing to find "google search" yields 121,000,000 results.
Using google to find "bing search" yields 41,300,000.
Google wins hands down!
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