Bing, Microsoft’s new web search engine, has posted the first decline since its launch in May of this year according to Statcounter. While Yahoo met a similar fate as Bing for the month, Google has gobbled up that available market share and posted an increase for the month of September.
Bing dropped over a percentage point from 9.64% to 8.51%. Yahoo posted a similar drop from 10.5% to 9.4%. Google, on the other hand, showed a gain of over 2 points from 77.83% to 80.08%. Not a bad month for the Google universe: up in search and promulgating some serious hype over the upcoming release of Wave.
What does this mean? From the people I’ve spoken with about their search habits, many people went over to Bing due to the shine factor but have since gone back to Google. It seems that the cleanliness and relevant results from Google are still grabbing share. People do appear to enjoy the media areas of Bing in terms of idle entertainment (the music video section of Bing is directly responsible for a lot of spent hours). Still, when it comes to getting answers to burning questions, Google is again making strides.
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