ComScore: Bing grows to 11.3 percent of U.S. search market
Summary: The January search data from comScore is out, and Microsoft's Bing now has 11.3 percent of the U.S. search market, the firm claims.
The January search data from comScore is out, and Microsoft's Bing now has 11.3 percent of the U.S. search market, the firm claims.
Yahoo's share continued to slide, with the current No. 2 vendor now at 17 percent. Google also slightly declined, with 65.4 percent of the U.S. market.
(In December, the totals for each of the Big Three were: Google, 65.7 percent; Yahoo, 17.3; and Bing, 10.7, according to comScore.)
As a couple of other bloggers have noted, Microsoft seems to be making these gains by buying traffic, with various promotions and deals. That's one reason the company's Online Systems Division, of which Bing is a big chunk, is continuing to lose money, hand over fist.
As TechFlash blogger Todd Bishop points out, the combined Microsoft-Yahoo search team is looking increasingly less powerful, given that Yahoo's search share is continuing to slide. Sure, if and when the partnership deal the pair announced last summer gets regulatory approval, Bing will become the No. 2 vendor. But it will be a No. 2 with less than 30 percent share, compared to Google's 65 percent.
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Why do you point out the negatives MJ? Isn't a jump to over 11% ....
You posted all of the negatives and don't you realize that Google grew to it's 65% on partnerships, deals and buying everything in sight? Garrett never paints it that way, but then again teh other bloggers are quite biased, well many of them.
But you have normally been more of a journalist than a blogger and have given both sides of every story. This time just the negative side of this growth.
You do realize that giving up profit for growth is an often used business model, right?
No matter how they did it, I think in the few years Bing has been around, gaining over 11% in the face of Google and it's thousands of purchased properties and deals and leverage, is amazing.
negatives
I understand, but..
1. Saying Bing's growth is due to business deals simply wrong. 7 month of consective growth, you can't buy that.
2. Look back at what they said, at first, after point out Bing growth, never forget to say, that was due to 100m ad. Now the ads not there anymore, they say it is the toolbar deals. I don't know what's the problem with those people. Obviously, they feel uneasy about Bing's success.
3. Obvious those disrepectable bloggers or journalists as they call themselves have problem with MSFT. They take any chance to let the world know. I can tell you, MSFT is much stronger than their nerves. Expect to see netscape story, they will shut up then.
Excuse them MJ
are getting some of this share through say tool
bars then what happens when Firefox, Chrome and
others run IE out of the market? They'll be
without one of their avenues for growth. They fail
to realize that their idols at MS pay attention to
this stuff and make their moves based on it. Good
for them their idols aren't as slow as they are.
Excuse storm14k MJ
It's bad when MS does it, OK when everyone else does it, but I wasan't supposed to bring that up... :)
Heres another example for you MJ.
to realize that I said nothing is wrong with
what they have done. Its about understanding how
the search market share is being gained. Google
of course gets tons of share through Firefox.
Firefox is on the rise. IE (once place MS gains
its share) is on the decline. Thats all to it.
The smart person would begin to wonder if they
are putting their money in the right place to
sustain growth. But like I said...its a good
thing you all aren't running MS.
Thus with all zealots
You should be ashamed
Note LD doesn't make the honorable mention list, because not even he could believe his posts.
But you owe the others an apology.
Its funny how...
how small it might be. Now let this be anything
else....Android...Linux....Firefox and its "whats
that...we have X% share". Now let Silverlight get
.5% share and ya'll folk will have a party lmao.
almost as funny as Google tool being loaded by default
I'm curious as to why you left that tidbit out?
Left that tid bit out of what?
excited about a 11% market share for MS while
laughing at a 30% share for Firefox?
Lets not forget that MS is King on the desktop
The surprise is that it's not higher
A lot of people voting with their "feet."
Except
Where did you get that Bing is installed on 90% of desktops by default?
pointing out negatives
I love microsoft and windows and Bing.
Just putting in my 2 cents worth.
Poor MJ
What she doesn't realize, given her low intelligence, is that there are plenty of MS naysayers on the internet: Apple worshipers, Linux wackos, etc., that do that far better than her.
Does she need to cheer MS instead? No. What I think that would be better is to analyze good's and bad's of the MS-related news she blogs about and then come up with some well reasoned conclusion. However, I doubt she is capable of doing something like that.
She most likely continue with this nonsense, and also continue blogging about stupid things like "MS silence about Internet Explorer 10, Windows 9, Windows Server 2024 is deafening". Or, "MS codenames confuse me. Given the utter importance of this topic I will blog endlessly about it".
You're right...she's trying to please the freetards infesting Zdnet...
RE: ComScore: Bing grows to 11.3 percent of U.S. search market
you mess up other peoples PCs
and you then decide to switch their defaults to
something you like? Do you change their background
pictures as well. Unless they ask you to do it, it
is kind of rude.
I consider it doing them a favor