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Bing has done it again. According to the latest figures released by ComScore Microsoft’s Bing search engine continues to gain upon its rivals in the U.S. search marketplace.
ComScore’s monthly qSearch report revealed that in comparison to a market share of 65.7% in March, Google sites accounted for 65.4%(loss of 0.3 percentage points) of the explicit core…
The major search stats are out for January 2010 and it further shows how the steady decline of Yahoo! is being picked up as growth by other search engines such as Bing.
During January 2010, Bing searches increased 0.6 points to claim 11.3 percent of overall searches, while Yahoo! continues to fade, dropping 0.3 points to 17 percent.
The results are in and it’s no surprise that Google still has a commanding hold on the US search market. But has the Bing bubble burst?
Hitwise reports that while Google’s market share rose in December 2009 to 72%, Bing’s actually decreased by 4% from November 2009. The same can also be said for Yahoo! & Ask (but that’s really…
A new report released today by Efficient Frontier shows that overall search advertising spend is beginning to stabilize as the economy slows its freefall.
Overall U.S. advertising spend dropped slightly in Q2 2009, however the rate of decline is slowing. In contrast to the reduction in spend is advertiser’s ROI, which recently grew by 12 percentage points to 129%.
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The latest data from comScore is out – and it’s looking very positive for Bing. According to a recent press release, Microsoft has seen gains in U.S. search share during the second week of Bing’s debut.
From the press release:
The results show that Microsoft has continued to increase its position in the search market following the
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Google’s dominance in the US search market is continuing to grow according to data released by Hitwise today.
Google’s search market share grew by 8% year-over-year while Yahoo! And MSN dropped a staggering 19% and 17% respectively.
Hitwise also reported that search terms longer than 3 keyword phrases all saw a year-over-year percentage increase meaning users are…