Bing Shows Steady Growth

So, there’s some slightly conflicting data Thursday afternoon from Hitwise on trends in search market share.

The data for June suggests Microsoft actually lost market share in the month:

• Google: 74.04% share, vs. 73.66% in May, 69.17% a year ago.
• Yahoo: 16.19%, vs. 15.55% in May, 19.62% a year ago.
• Microsoft: 5.25%, vs. 5.64% in May, 5.46% a year ago.
• Ask.com: 3.15%, vs. 3.81% in May, 4.05% a year ago.

So Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) gain share, Microsoft and Ask.com lost share.

On the other hand, Hitwise also provided week-by-week data on Bing alone - not counting the other MSFT search sites - that shows rapid growth. Here’s the company’s share of U.S. queries by week:

• Week ending June 6: 3.43%
• Week ending June 13: 4.57%
• Week ending June 20: 5.35%
• Week ending June 27: 6.63%

Here’s the data with Bing combined with the company’s legacy search sites:

• Week ending June 6: 4.30%
• Week ending June 13: 4.59$
• Week ending June 20: 5.39%
• Week ending June 27: 6.71%

So while June was not a great month overall for Microsoft’s search site, Bing seems to be growing at an impressive pace.

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[kata:]

Goog stinks. Bing stinks. All the search engines are awful. Hopefully, they ll all get better but in the meantime Bing is at least more attractive and more fun and doesnt data mine every atom of every thought and every comment you ve ever made. So my vote is for Bing and its earnings are growing faster while Googs are slowing down. And as far as an OS, why on earth would Goog make an announcement of a pc operating system that doesnt even exist yet and they dont expect to release for at least a year! And who knows if they ll be able to support it? They dont make any money on anything they do other than search. Chrome isnt doing very well as a smartphone OS, how on earth can it be a pc OS?
They must be terrified of Bing to have made an announcement at this time. And what about the MAC, where are they in this attack? Give me a public relations break already. I ll take BIDU anyway.

Jul 09 05:35 PM