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Bing Gaining Market Share Faster

Posted by kdawson on from the maybe-it's-the-chinese-sounding-name dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Like Firefox, Opera and Chrome do with Google? It's not hard to change search engine in IE, btw

  2. Re:Market Variety by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not alternatives, but Scroogle hides your searches among thousands of others (and removes Google's click-tracking javascripts and so on).

  3. Re:Of course by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Informative
    Oh, come on. The first time you run IE8 it prompts you to pick a search provider or to use the default of Bing- and it keeps prompting every time you launch until you make a choice or tell it to go away. It lists Google right there, no need to search for more providers. It really can't be made any easier than that.

    For an existing install, I can't say as I haven't tried it. But it seems odd to me that the first run would have data that a subsequent run would not.

  4. Contradicting numbers by trazan · · Score: 5, Informative

    This completely contradicts two other reports from the last few days, which has Bing losing market share in December.

    http://searchengineland.com/nielsen-yahoo-bing-down-google-up-in-december-33464

    http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/search-enginedec2009/

  5. And another thing by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Informative

    MSDN is now powered by Bing too. So every windows programmer in the world is now making Bing queries by default. That's got to boost things a bit.

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  6. Re:Sure... by Idiomatick · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/24/0112201

    Might be interesting if you haven't read it.

  7. Re:Of course by dougisfunny · · Score: 3, Informative

    a bunch of Verizon blackberrys

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  8. Once again a misleading story about Bing by pdboddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    That total you see in the image in the article is for Microsoft Sites. This number includes searches from ALL of Microsoft's search boxes: Bing, Live, microsoft.com, etc etc.

    If you look at the Nielsen report here: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nielsen-reports-december-u-s-search-rankings/

    You'll see that they list Microsofts search sites as "MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search", which is a bit more explanatory I would say.

    And if you check Hitwise, where they list searches BY domain name, www.bing.com LOST 4%. (http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/search-enginedec2009/)

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  9. But Google didn't lose - it gained! by twoallbeefpatties · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, when I look at the graph in TFA the Search Share for Google increased just as much as Bing did! In Dec-08, MS sites were at 8.3%, up to 10.7% in Dec-09. During that same timespan, Google went from 63.5% to 65.7%.

    And in that timespan, Yahoo dropped from 20.5% to 17.3%. AOL also dropped from 3.8% to 2.6%. Guess what - MSN isn't stealing Google's shares yet. It's stealing from Google's competitors.

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  10. Re:Of course by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Informative

    It still doesn't explain anything, because IE6 also uses Bing as default search out of the box. Well, technically, it uses Live, but that redirects all search queries to Bing now.

  11. Re:Of course by zehaeva · · Score: 4, Informative

    As an avid blackberry user and enthusiast on Verizon, in an office full of blackberry addicts, I will tell you you are dead wrong sir.

    I can not change the default search provider on my Storm 2, I have tried.

    I did not install it either. When I purchased the Storm 2 Google was the default search engine, literally over night it was changed, with out my permission and against my wishes. The same happened to every single blackberry in my office.

    The only option I have is to type google into my blackberry's browser to use it. That is hardly an option at all.

    Also I did not want the Bing application installed to my blackberry and yet it was done for me over the air. I have not been able to uninstall it either. It does not show up in the applications in the options at all.

    What option is this?

    ~Zehaeva

  12. Re:easy to cheat by mindwhip · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to mention that Microsoft migrated their various separate search engines (support, msdn, KB, etc... ) onto Bing so if you need any kind of information from the Evil Ones you are using the evil search.

    Bing as a name makes me giggle anyway... to most people living in Scotland a 'Bing' is a heap of slag or other waste materials left over from coal mining and is often a toxic hazard to be avoided...

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