a good sign for Bing?
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.
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.
