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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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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.