Bing Leaps over Yahoo on it's 2nd Week Release
Microsoft Corp. unveiled on first week of June 2009 its newest search engine, Bing, which will be available worldwide on June 3. Designed to replace Live Search and complete with the other leading search engines, Bing isn't dubbed a "Google Killer" just yet; however, it does offer a few specialized features that are worth mentioning.
StatCounter's analysis for Thursday (June 4, 2009) finds that in the US Bing leapfrogged Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%. Yahoo! has 10.22%. Google still commands the US search engine market with 71.47%. StatCounter data globally finds that Bing at 5.62% has taken a narrow lead over Yahoo! (5.13%). Google worldwide retains 87.62% of the market.
If Bing continues on an upward trajectory, it could pose a challenge to Google as well. An informal survey by News portal One News Page suggested that 55% of users plan to replace Google with Bing as their main search engine. Bing's branding also seems to have taken off--65% of respondents claimed to like the name, while 90% said they would use the expression "to Bing it" as a colloquialism for searching on the web. Studies have found that user loyalty to search engines is low. A 2009 Forrester Research survey revealed that more than half of respondents used more than one search engine to locate information, and despite Google's online dominance, only 20% of users searched with Google exclusively.
StatCounter's analysis for Thursday (June 4, 2009) finds that in the US Bing leapfrogged Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%. Yahoo! has 10.22%. Google still commands the US search engine market with 71.47%. StatCounter data globally finds that Bing at 5.62% has taken a narrow lead over Yahoo! (5.13%). Google worldwide retains 87.62% of the market.
If Bing continues on an upward trajectory, it could pose a challenge to Google as well. An informal survey by News portal One News Page suggested that 55% of users plan to replace Google with Bing as their main search engine. Bing's branding also seems to have taken off--65% of respondents claimed to like the name, while 90% said they would use the expression "to Bing it" as a colloquialism for searching on the web. Studies have found that user loyalty to search engines is low. A 2009 Forrester Research survey revealed that more than half of respondents used more than one search engine to locate information, and despite Google's online dominance, only 20% of users searched with Google exclusively.
