Latest data on search engine market share from Nielsen showed that as Yahoo continues its losing streak, Bing is on a rampage gaining 10.7% of the search engine market for August. Bing’s search market share is a big 22% leap from July’s data. So we can safely say that Bing is now the fastest growing search engine.
According the report released last Monday, Bing managed to get 1.1 billion searches, making it less than a billion of searches near Yahoo which managed to get 1.7 billion searches, or 16% search market share.
Google on the other stood steadily at the top spot gaining 2.6% market share with a total of 7 billion searches or 64% of the search market share.
Again with all these data from the previous, the next question to ask is will Bing be able to sustain this increasing trend in the coming months? Most probably, as we have seen how Microsoft have been pushing Bing to the limit. And besides, we have yet to see Bing 2.0 which Micosoft is said to launch anytime soon. We might as well add the recently released Bing visual search feature which if I may say so looks pretty cool.
What’s interesting here is that despite Bing’s gain, Google doesn’t seem to be affected. But then, it’s too early to tell, Bing has been out for only a couple of months. Who knows when the Yahoo – Microsoft deal is already in place, we might start seeing a decrease in Google search market share by then.
Hmm…. Bing is starting to chop away at Google. I really hope that Bing 2.0 starts to make traction.
I honestly like a lot of features of Bing and am rooting for them. I really like the visual search that you just talked about.
Plus a nice pretty new picture every morning is always nice.
The innovation at Bing is intense – I was at the launch of their Visual Search this week (http://bit.ly/np8r6) and regardless of what ultimately happens it’s great to see this spurring competition in search which will be good for all!
Bings indexing speed is yet to pick up. There are a lot of pages out there to be cached. I am not sure if you can win by displaying poor results in a better way.
If you happen to be on the webmasters forum by BING you will know what goes out there. There are hundreds of webmasters complaining about their sites not being indexed. That includes me.
They need to get their basics right. Flashy stuff wont carry them much further in long run. And by the way Google’s % of searches grew too. so how is it eating into googles searches? For those who can do some simple calculation. A growth form 100 to 120 may look big in percent but is actually lacklusture when compared to a growth from 1000 to 1050
This is a very large increase, an unexpected one as well. If Bing keeps climbing, maybe Microsoft won’t be as interested in completing the deal with Yahoo. More at http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/09/bing-continues-growth-in-august.html
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by bing–they’ve rated my sites very high.
I used to really like Google as the underdog, but now Google is a bully.
Tell your friends to use Bing (or anything non-Google).
Us web-savvy, blog loving, techno wizards, are the ones that change the world–one internet user at a time. I mean, look what we did to Microsofts Vista (and even Windows 7 already).
“Bing is starting to chop away at Google” That’s not what the report says. If you read carefully, Google’s search requests actually increased, so Bing is chopping away at all other search engines but not Google.
“I used to really like Google as the underdog, but now Google is a bully.”
Can you please explain more what makes you say that? I can’t figure out how Google can be consider a bully and how you can consider Microsoft an angel when they make all your choices for you whether you like the results or not, starting with the options you get in your operating system, Heck, in Vista you can’t even pick your midi source anymore, you can’t use your soundcard’s synthesizer, you are now forced to use Microsoft’s crappy software synth…. That’s just one of the multitude of choices the Microsoft keeps imposing every time they come up with something new. If Microsoft ends up dominating the Search Engine market, they will take away our choices too. Just wait and see. But I still want to know what makes you think Google is a bully….