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."

Comments

Re:Of course

[ShadowRangerRIT]

Not to mention this has been the case for years. Unless transitioning from IE6 to IE7/8 has also accelerated drastically, the GPP's explanation makes no sense.

Re:Stupid reporting

[Anonymusing]

Your analogy is flawed. It only works if you and your son share a pool of height, and the gain of one could induce a reduction in the other. As it stands, your respective heights are completely unrelated, unlike Google and Bing's share of the market.

You're right. I was being facetious.

But just to add one comment... I've read in the past that a surprising number of people will try a different search engine rather than wade through multiple pages of results on the same search engine. In short, you should be suspicious of any "market share" analysis of the search engine industry that adds up to a concise 100%: the numbers should actually add up to 110% or more, to account for these search engine polygamists. (Don't have a link handy for this, sorry. Mark me troll if you like.)