Bing Making Slight Progress
Bing again slightly increased the Microsoft share of the US search market in July to 9.41 percent from 8.23 percent in June according web analytics firm StatCounter.
Sure Bing still has a long way to go to even come close to being a treat to Google, but an increase is better than going in the other direction.
Microsoft and Yahoo combined took 20.36 percent of the search market, up slightly from 19.27 percent in June.
Google unsurprisingly still has the lead of the US market with 77.54 percent in July. (78.48% in June).
“Bing continues to make slow but steady progress but the combined Yahoo! figures suggests that the deal announced last week will have to demonstrate major future synergies if it is to make any dent in Google’s dominance,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO and founder, StatCounter.
The challenge for Microsoft and Yahoo is even tougher in the global market. Microsoft and Yahoo combined took 8.77 percent of the global search market in July. Google still rules the search market globally with 89.23 percent in July.
August 13th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Your analysis is really appreciable. The bing is grabbing market at slow rate. It is really a challenging for google but I call it emergence of a big search engine.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 am
Poor bing, they have a very looong way to go.
August 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
‘Bing slight Making Progress’ is correct
we must strive to improve SEO.
thank’s from this article
August 24th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Noticed the small bump in traffic on the same Statcounter data but you are absolutely right when it comes to the global market. The laguages I understand gets a lot worse search results from Bing than from Google and this should prove a problem.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
This is a really interesting situation. Google was the long time leader and has now a follower that comes closer. Surely we cannot say anything a this early stage but I look forward to a dirty fight.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 am
It is fine that Bing is making slight progress but spare a thought for Google. What special they have done to make it so big that even the combined force of Microsoft and Yahoo is no where near the Search Giant.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Just picked up this news about the Bing/Yahoo deal:
“The U.S. Department of Justice has furthered its investigation into the proposed search engine deal between Microsoft and Yahoo by asking both companies to provide more information.”
Would it not be in the interest of the competition that the deal would be accepted?