Latest search market data from comScore show that both Bing and Google have gained in October while Yahoo continues its slump. Google remained steady at the top with 65.4% market share from September’s 64.9%. Bing on the other hand managed to post a 9.9% marker share from 9.4% in September.
Meanwhile, Yahoo seems to be suffering, probably from Bing’s gain with 18% market share in October from September’s 18.8% data.
Another interesting point is the fact that Bing’s Y/Y growth is at a significant 30.8% from 2008. This maybe naturall, espcecially since prior to Bing, Microsoft search, was in a big slump for the past several years as well.
What really matters now is whether Bing and Yahoo’s combined search market share will have enough force to get some more search market juices from Google. Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing until probably after the first quarter of 2010.
Not surprising since Bing is just a platform for promotion and that Bing is serving Yahoo clients. Why would people use Yahoo anyways?
No-one will switch from google unless they find an attractive reason to – and bing seems to have very poor marketing campaign…?
sites like awooga.com which allow side-by-side comparison of searching in google and bing may be a way forward.
why search one place, when you can search two…..
I’m surprised to see the rate that Bing is growing. Can’t complain our sites rank well in Bing.
Bing should be growing right now with all the recent advertising on TV. The data will be interesting to see 6 months after microsoft stops running ads on TV.