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Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37%

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-a-gap dept.

suraj.sun writes "Bing overtook Yahoo for the first time worldwide in January, and increased its lead in February, according to web analytics company, StatCounter. Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that globally Bing reached 4.37%, in February ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93%. Both trail far behind Google's 89.94% of the global search engine market." Just a little more plagiarizing to go!

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  1. Excellent! by swordgeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now if only it didn't suck.

    I wish someone - even Microsoft - would come up with a decent alternative to Google. Being a monopoly is making them more and more corrupt, and by being the gatekeeper, they now own too much of the internet.

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    "People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
    1. Re:Excellent! by suprcvic · · Score: 5, Insightful

      By definition, Google isn't a monopoly. They aren't the only search engine in town, they just happen to be the most successful with a vast majority of the market share. That's not because they are erecting large barriers to entry, it's just because the other search engines aren't as smart as theirs.

    2. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, it's not. Google has not engaged in any anticompetitive practices to hold on to that market share. Being successful simply because you're good at what you do is not a crime. Microsofts agreements with OEMs, other software makers and Intel were used to make it impossible for other OS makers to compete. It would be like if Google created a new standard called norobotsexceptgoogles.txt and lowered the page rank of any sites that didn't refuse to be crawled by anyone but google.

  2. Editing is a lost art by Anarke_Incarnate · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Has overtook Bing"

    Cringe..... Maybe they should BING the word overtaken.

  3. How many by choice? by stcdm33 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many of those are by choice and how many are by devices and/or apps that have Bing forced on them?

  4. Double-surprise by Toe,+The · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which is more surprising? That 4.37% can land a #2 spot, or that anyone uses Bing?

    Both are rather startling, imho.

  5. Yahoo = Bing by cforciea · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since Yahoo is powered by Bing, isn't this a little like saying Bing has "overtook" Bing?

  6. wow by markass530 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering it's the default search engine on I.E. and we all know how loathe people are to change defaults (IE6 market share anyone) this is a pretty sad number.