So while we are all recovering from Google’s announcement of the Chrome OS, let’s get back to one of hottest pre-Google Chrome OS items – Bing. What has now become of Bing – Google Search’s rival? For the past few days, Bing camp’s has been pretty quiet lately.
Mashable is reporting that the latest June data from Compete.com indicates that Bing is now the 13th most visited site on the web. Bing was able to register 49.57 million unique visits during its first month. Interestingly, Bing’s unique visitors is even more than that of Digg with 38.96 million, Twitter with 23 million and CNN with 28.54 million. These data represents U.S. traffic only. Bing’s unique U.S. traffic is almost 30 million less than that of Live.com, where most of Microsoft’s web products are still residing including Hotmail.
But of course, we could always say (again) that this is nothing unusual. Users are still curious about Bing, especially with a massive marketing campaign launch by Microsoft. And this might still change in the next month or so of Bing’s existence.
Still, these numbers should send Bing’s rival a signal. Bing is a dark horse in the search engine wars. And boy it is going to be a powerful dark horse that both Google and Yahoo should take seriously.
Great article Arnold. I agree with you completely that our most reputable search engines should take notice of Bing’s quick moves. Google has certainly “spun the web” with its control over the internet, and as your statistics have shown, the “surfers” of the web are inclined for a change and something new.
Although these stats certainly cannot tell what the future may hold, they give insight as to what may be. I love Google, and can safely say the majority of us do, but they may see themselves chomping at the bit for innovation.
One of the reasons I absolutely love competition and innovation is that each leader must exceed all expectations, defy the odds and conquer the impossible to stay on top. It’s the survival of the fittest, and those that reap the benefits are us, the consumers. It’s a beautiful facet of evolution.
Since Yahoo’s site is both a portal and a search engine, whereas those are split in Microsoft’s sites, looking at the sum of Microsoft’s sites vs. Yahoo posts an even rosier picture for Microsoft.
http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/07/microsoft-gaining-on-yahoo.html
Its great to hear Bing is on a raising hand.
The one thing I love about Bing.com is their news page. Sure, it pales when compared to Google’s news page but with Bing, I can create my own news search page and Bing creates an RSS feed for it.
Well i thnk Bing has the the potential… especially coz of it excellent image and video search… no doubt big is here to say… but will it be able to out shine google? i am skeptical… but yeah Yahoo sure has a reason to worry.
Perfect Start from Bing but way to go before it can actually think of competing with Google
Looks like bing has a nice time ahead…
Great start from Bing i think it will cross Google in coming days …
I think Bing is going to become even more popular over the coming weeks/months as people begin to see the benefits.
Finally there is something to look out. But the question is, will it be continued for a long time or not. Let’s see, but this really worries Yahoo but donno wether it may comeout great guns….
Great post Arnold. I agree with you that Bing is definitely a serious competitor for Google and Yahoo. I personally like Bing quite a lot, especially their local platform which is one step ahead of Google’s!
Bing is great, but it has still some limitations to catch Google. But improving.
Bing has certainly managed to carve a niche in the area of image and video search. I think that the SEO community will have to take cognizance of this and factor it in it’s efforts!
Bing is good but still G for Google and G for God…