Bing Overtakes Yahoo!
Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide on Thursday (4th June) according to our StatCounter Global Stats data. Bing grabbed market share from Google.
“It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial novelty and promotion but at first sight it looks like Microsoft is on to a winner,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second biggest search engine within five years. Following the breakdown in talks to acquire Yahoo! at a cost of $40bn it looks as if he may have just achieved that with Bing much sooner and a lot cheaper than anticipated.”
Our analysis 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%.
Globally Bing at 5.62% has taken a narrow lead over Yahoo! (5.13%). Google worldwide retains 87.62% of the market.
StatCounter Global Stats, a free online service which captures market share battles of search engines, browsers and operating systems including mobile, was launched in March this year.
The StatCounter Global Stats research data is based on four billion pageloads per month. Other regional and country breakdowns can be viewed at: http://gs.statcounter.com
Full press release available here.
UPDATE 11 June 2009:
While Bing has fallen back to third place behind Google and Yahoo! it is winning market share for Microsoft against its two main rivals in the US and worldwide according to our latest analysis.
We analyzed search engine market share two weeks before and after the formal launch of Bing on May 28th (14th May to the 27th May and the 28th May to 10th June). For the US market it found:
Google decreased from 78.68% to 77.94% (-0.74%)
Yahoo decreased from 11.46% to 10.76% (-0.7%)
Microsoft (Bing, MSN Search and Live Search) increased from 7.4% to 9% (+1.6%)
(See here and here)
“It is too early to say what the long term result will be but this is a creditable performance by Bing,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter. “It remains to be seen what happens to Bing after user curiosity and the reported $100m advertising budget runs out.”
Worldwide, comparing the two weeks before and after the Bing launch, StatCounter reports a similar trend with Microsoft taking market share.
Google decreased from 89.81% to 89.69% (-0.12%)
Yahoo decreased from 5.34% to 5.1% (-0.24%)
Microsoft (Bing, MSN Search and Live Search) increased from 3.08% to 3.5% (+0.42%)
(See here and here)
Full press release available here.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Hi
nice information you have…so great site…
regards
GOOGLE EXPERTS
June 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The big question now is whether Microsoft will take a big chunk out of Yahoo’s paid search revenue, as mentioned here: http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/does-microsoft-bing-change-paid-search.html
June 5th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
interesting… i am waiting other market research company such as Neilson to compare result with statcounter.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
No way?! I guess with a network the size that Microsoft has, you’ve got the ability to do something like this, but the results with BING have been less than impressive for me. It will be interesting to see how BING does going forward.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Bing is catching yahoo and Google in the search world and I found the background very much interesting and cool. This Decision search engine will provide a unique way to search information and the details given by STATCOUNTER is very much interesting.Looking forward for more news coming from Search Engine Arena.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
sooooo…. Google still kicks everybody’s butt.
Bing hasn’t really changed the world I guess. I see Bing as an improvement over the old Live search engine but it still isn’t Google. Sorry.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
[...] the StatCounter Blog announced that according to their Global Stats information (which pools all of the traffic data from their [...]
June 5th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
[...] within a few days of launching it has already surpassed Yahoo to take the number 2 position in US and global search market according to [...]
June 6th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Wow, quite impressive. On the other hand, the results suck, I have to use IE at work and it defaults to bing, not so good.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Oh man…I knew Google was the world leader but I didn’t know it was by that margin…wow! No wonder they control the world wide web.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am
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June 6th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Real hot-off-the-press news this - many thanks. Bing seems to return similar results to Google, at least on their first pages. But Bing seem to be shy about giving details for optimising sites for their search engine. Does anyone have any information?
June 6th, 2009 at 9:40 am
That’s a good news for the users and hopefully a more tighter competition in search will only make things better.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I noticed some more traffic coming to my sites from Bing. Didn’t know what Bing was until I started reading the buzz about it on the internet.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
[...] die in eine Suchmaschine investiert wurde. Das scheint sich auszuzahlen: Laut dem Onlinedienst Statcounter erreichte Bing in den USA auf Anhieb 16,28 Prozent und überholte damit Yahoo, die nur noch [...]
June 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Ang bilis ng hataw ng Bing! Would this be the end for Yahoo?
June 6th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I am back on this blog but I love Bing….
so stop being google but start bing……….
June 6th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I think it’s not a good news for webmasters if a new search engine is coming.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
It does not at all surprise me that Bing overtook Yahoo. Looking at hits for my sites, few come from Yahoo… and with Bing’s television ads blitz it is going to get hits from the curious. Even I checked it out and was not at all impressed. When the TV ads disappear, so will Bing and MS will return to trying to reinvent the wheel.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I really dont like Bing. The only reason it leapfrogged yahoo! is simply because people where curious because of the media attention.
But, first impressions, not good.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:00 am
I do like Bing, though have not switched yet - old habits die hard. That was because I did not perceive MS as a search specialist. But now seems like they have taken it very seriously and that is good (not to forget that they have the $$ to do it if needed).
I’ll wait and watch for some more time if it turns out to be good, make the switch (don’t like google corp that much - even though their search is great).
June 7th, 2009 at 3:19 am
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June 7th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Yahoo has failed to innovate and the Microsoft-Yahoo deal brouhaha following the replacement of Yahoo’s founder and CEO put it in a negative light. Bing attempts to be a simple and graceful search engine by eradicating link infested search engines,
June 7th, 2009 at 7:26 am
[...] within a few days of launching it has already surpassed Yahoo to take the number 2 position in US and global search market according to [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 9:54 am
not bad. maby yahoo and msft should work together
June 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
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June 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I expect it to fall away as I think Yahoo still provides a better search experience - both with more relevant results and adverts.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
It should be interesting to look at the statistics of Bing in 6 months……I like to see alternative search engines…….its good for the internet.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
What happened to live.com… and who uses yahoo anyway…. cannot find anything relevant anyways
June 7th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
[...] Según StatCounter, en EE.UU. Bing ya acapara el 16,28% de las visitas a buscadores, mientras que Yahoo! pasa al tercer puesto con el 10,22%. Google cuenta con el favor del 71.47% de los internautas norteamericanos. [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
[...] blind von vielen Newsagenturen (u.a. Handelsblatt) und Tekki-Blogs nachgesungen wird. Zwar hat Statcounter am 5. Juni einen Artikel mit den Zahlen veröffentlicht, die Bing als 2. Kraft hinter Google und vor Yahoo [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
from where I am bing has just rehashed the old ms search reults. Bing travel is even worse - at least here in the uk it is. If anybody is going to take on google it needs to be someone new and fresh - twitter search perhaps, results from people rather than robots
June 7th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I have used Bing 2 or 3 time but gave up, I get as much out of it as I did Yahoo and I don’t use it anymore.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Yahoo is crap. You can not find anything on it. I do not know what happen to yahoo but it is bad. You do a search for something and you get really bed sites. Google and bing is the one for me!!!!!!
June 7th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Yahoo should change there name from yahoo to yaya no more! CRAP
June 8th, 2009 at 2:00 am
i’m very interested. how i can get it for paste to my blog ???????
June 8th, 2009 at 2:38 am
[...] Yahoo, on the other hand, ends up losing face again. A search pioneer drops to third to a relative newcomer. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 3:51 am
I thought there is a new search engine coming to town as I watched my stats increasing bing search visitors. I discovered that it is just a remake of msn search and live search.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Why is there so much emotion (positive and negative) when a news story focuses on Microsoft? Let’s stick with the facts and how they might or might not impact us. In what ways is Bing better or worse than Google or Yahoo? How will (or should) Bing’s introduction affect marketers? Here are my newest thoughts on Bing, Yahoo!, and Google.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:45 am
It’s not weird since IE 7/8 has ‘Live’ as the default search engine so when anyone search within IE, it’ll redirect to ‘Bingo’ unless he/she is using ‘Google/Yahoo Toolbars.
Anyway, I think folks @ Microsoft will shout out loud: Bingo
June 8th, 2009 at 10:46 am
[...] According to StatCounter, the #Bing search engine overtakes Yahoo! — http://blog.statcounter.com/2009/06/bing-overtakes-yahoo/ [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Very interesting! I don’t think it could ever be as big/popular as Google though, but who knows…!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
[...] the latest StatCounter blog post, they have said that Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number two search engine in the [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
This result tells me only about the effect of a US$ 100 million marketing campaign making people try a new product. How many people will remain loyal to the service after initial trial is still a mistery!
June 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
We need another option, not always Google; we hope that Bing would be!
June 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
[...] ver los SERPs que generan ambos navegadores para comparar su efectividad online. Visto en el blog de [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
[...] “It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial novelty and promotion but at first sight it looks like Microsoft is on to a winner,” said Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter, in a statement on the site’s blog. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
[...] to making a big impression already. Here’s an interesting article about how well its doing so far: StatCounter Blog Blog Archive Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Shane. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
[...] Re: Will Bing defeat Google? I think they won’t beat Google as well, but Bing’s got of to a good start according to this: StatCounter Blog Blog Archive Bing Overtakes Yahoo! [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Microsoft has redirected all MSN-Live search over to bing, so it’s no longer being split between those latter tow - it’s all showing up as bing.com. Now if Statcounter would just allow me to turn off all the Google country variations! I really don’t care to see Google hits divided up that way.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:25 am
A different look but will the search results be the same?
June 9th, 2009 at 12:31 am
How do I get to bing? There’s just alot of articles listed.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Ever try to get a site listed on Yahoo? They don’t have a clue. Not anymore.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Very good information for us.
Hope Yahoo now will shake off its orthodoxity.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Very interesting news. Google always stresses that content is king when actually Google is King because they control the content and can determine which content gets found by users. Now Bing steps up. They are still lightyears away from Google, but at least, it’s something. I hope Bing keeps it up.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:45 am
[...] US and Europe Logging on this morning, I also discovered that they track search engines, and had a story on their blog about Bing.com, and the jump in use since it was launched last week. The chart below tells the story, with [...]
June 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am
They have kept it simple… just how Google started out!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:20 am
[...] un estudio realizado por StatCounter, el sustituto de Live Search comienza fuerte, y entre el día 3 y 4 de junio ha superado en número [...]
June 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I’ve been seeing the same trend on my blogs. Really surprising to see Bing raise so fast.
I guess Microsoft got some tricks up their sleeves to get people to use their search engine.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I find Yahoo clustered on their main page whereas Bing is simple, less distracting. I feel that it is a lot like Google, except that Bing puts a different beautiful background image. That image changes every day. Also, for some keywords, Bing provides more relevant search results. If I can’t find what I am seeking on Google, I will give Bing a try. I use all three search engines, Yahoo, Google and now Bing. I must say that I am stunned to see it pass Google in such a short amount of time. Is it temporary, short term. I guess time will tell on a long term basis.
Sherlock Home
June 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Oops. Correction. I must say that I am stunned to see Bing pass Yahoo in such a short amount of time.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Just try adding a local listing for UK, posts suggest there is no facility yet for UK but I can see some of my competitors so where has the info come from?! The more things change….
June 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Amazing, and so quickly, I noticed so many of my visitors coming from bing lately, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
June 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I’m not at all impressed with Bing. I tested it on some blog posts I’ve written about an extinct post office in rural Nebraska — an obscure topic. I have posted more information about this little community than is available at any other site on the internet.
Google finds these posts as indexed on Blogcatalog within 4 results and finds these posts on my blog as the 14th result. Of course I would like to see it higher, but that’s acceptable. Many of the other top Google results are valid returns for the search terms.
Bing locates my blog feed as the 20th result — please note: it does not find the relevant posts, but it locates my blog feed. That is a fairly useless result for someone who is researching a specific topic.
Most of Bing’s results that ranked higher than my blog feed are “Find a date in …”, “Rent an apartment in …” “Gay Men in …” More useless garbage.
Google remains the top search engine bringing visitors to my blog by a *huge* majority. Next is Yahoo, followed by AOL, and Bing is currently in 4th place.
June 9th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Re: the “beautiful background image” that Home mentions in a comment above –
That image is no favor to people who have slow internet connections. I don’t care how well it is optimized. A simple page like Google is always going to load a lot faster over dialup.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Bing is catching yahoo and Google in the search world and I found the background very much interesting and cool. This Decision search engine will provide a unique way to search information and the details given by STATCOUNTER is very much interesting.Looking forward for more news coming from Search Engine Arena.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Haven’t seen much Bing traffic yet, but the availability of the Global Stats data is fantastic!
June 9th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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June 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I think this is because bing is very new and there’s no way it can beat yahoo in the long run.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
[...] on it. Particularly when it’s clear Bing is eating up Yahoo!’s market share, at least for the [...]
June 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
MSN or Live or now Bing has always been my favourite, however the results are not good compared to Google.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:18 am
“According to ComScore, Bing.com market share is up to 11.1% from 9.1% (for Microsoft Live Search).”
Wow, all that money and they gained 2% which I really doubt will last after the buzz is over and the novelty has worn off. Their results are OK, but still need some improvement IMHO. Their commercials are kind of funny, but at least in the case of Google really don’t make sense to me. Google may have more spam, but their results are darn good and better than Yahoo & Bing according to http://blindsearch.fejus.com - although that is subject to gaming, which I now see has happened.
June 10th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Interesting. Quite honestly though, I believe Yahoo Search isn’t really “much” of a contender, as such the Hype surrounding the (Bada) Bing was good enough to outpace them. Google on the other hand is a completely different “ball game”. They’d surely have to work on those results if they are to stand any chance against the big Ol’ G.
Really Good Info. Thanks
June 10th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Bling? Sounds like a new moon is appearing. Let’s see what yahoo will do about it.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:18 am
I wasnt impressed with the search results i got from Bing for content in fact I couldnt really even tell a difference from live to bing in that regard. The results really did and continue to suck.
However, I was impressed with the image search. In my opinion they OWN that area.
In regard to yahoo. Man those guys are hanging on by a thread. When was the last time we saw anything truly innovative from Yahoo? Innovate or die in this market baby. A lesson their new CEO will learn the hard way i guess.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:50 am
It’s not weird since IE 7/8 has ‘Live’ as the default search engine so when anyone search within IE, it’ll redirect to ‘Bingo’ unless he/she is using ‘Google/Yahoo Toolbars.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:56 am
[...] o StatCounter, um ambiente de métricas não-oficial, Bing absorvia cerca de 16% das pesquisas na web, superando [...]
June 10th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
[...] Tim on Twitter Web stats site StatCounter caused some excitement last week when it announced that Bing had overtaken Yahoo in search market share, as tracked by its site analysis [...]
June 10th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Nice looking site you have - are you having fun with it? It’s interesting and well worth the time to visit.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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June 10th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Time will show the truth. I don’t think Bing can overtake yahoo and it’s impossible to overtake google. New ideas and a little creativity is needed to beat yahoo and of course as Mr apple says a little vision.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Competition has just started with But It Not Google(BING) ….
June 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
It will all depend on the quality of their search results. I’m still doubtful whether the popularity will last after the initial interest. It was probably mostly thanks to massive advertising like Bing! adverts on television.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:58 am
It’s MSN search with a new name and better results.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Let’s see what will Google do for this competition
June 11th, 2009 at 3:50 am
It will be interesting how Google will react to Bing’s recent popolarity. No matter if it is temporary or permanent, Google will need to keep on their toes.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:01 am
I think Google still stronger at this moment, it’s a long way for Bing to catch up.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
It’s good to see that Microsoft are taking search seriously, because search is likely to be the answer to the company’s prayers.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
A short and memorable domain name should also work in Microsoft’s favour with this new search engine. The question is whether they are better able to leverage their dominance in operating systems to increase their search market share.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I have used stat counter for some time, it’s just the best.
As for Microsoft and yahoo stats, mmm, google is the only one that matters for me.
June 11th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I would love it if someone swoops in and break the hold that Google has over everything. Really fed up with always worrying about Mother Google’s reaction every time I change something on my website.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Welcome Bing. We hope you won’t disappear very soon!
And thanks to Statcounter for information.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
That’s good to know.
Can bing bring some thing new???
June 11th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Has anyone checked out xrank. From main page, you click on More, then on Xrank. In many respects, it is similar to Google’s Zeitgeist or Yahoo’s Buzz. However, most popular pictures or videos is a plus.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Precision: From Bing’s main page that is, you click on More, then on Xrank.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Very helpful of you to post information like this for all of us to use.
June 12th, 2009 at 6:29 am
I suspect it’s because of it being new to the internet. Although most critics believes that the off-line media promotion did the work mostly.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:15 am
It looks like many people are testing this new search engine. If they like it, they might stick to it. Nothing lasts forever on Internet and it will be interesting to see if Bing keeps its share after its first weeks.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I wouldn’t say they’ve done this legitimately. Aside from all the curious people whoa re just checking it out due to the media hype, the vast majority of its users are only there because they were FORCED to use it. Windows Update switched their default engine when they updated to IE8. On top of that, anyone who used Live search is now on Bing as Live is no more.
Most people don’ even have a clue how to change their default engine. I’ve written a couple of articles on Bing and get dozens of people a day commenting on it asking me how to remove it because they dont know how. They are also quite outraged about being forced to switch.
Dont get me wrong, it’s a slick search engine and has a better video search than Google but that’s about all I’d use it for. It has some quirks that I just cant get past. Plus I use Google for everything else so I’m already there when I need to search for something. And besides, competition is a good thing
June 12th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I hadn’t even heard about Bing until I read this post. Looks quite colourful compared with Google!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Yahoo’s biggest mistake is trying to beat Google. They should have stuck with its directory, it is what made them unique. They were the first directory on the Internet in 1994. Now, Bing is trying to beat Google and Yahoo in search. If only management had more focus, unfortunately, they are blind.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Good to know. Hate Yahoo
June 13th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Bing.com seems to have been owned by Lu Stasko and offered personal notification device. You can look up bing on the way back machine at archive.org. It probably was bought up by microsoft.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Yup. I never use yahoo search again. I like bing and google
June 16th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Still love google but i will try bing.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:34 am
i’m still addict to google, but let see what will happen next
June 17th, 2009 at 6:12 am
[...] Yahoo, on the other hand, ends up losing face again. A search pioneer drops to third to a relative newcomer. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Microsoft should concentrate on trying to deliver an operating system that we deserve, not just repackage the old (vista) with a new name (windows 7), and launch a multi-million ad campaign. Leave the search engine market to the exalted LORD GOOGLE!!! In google we trust.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Bing is catching yahoo and Google in the search world and I found the background very much interesting and cool. This Decision search engine will provide a unique way to search information and the details given by STATCOUNTER is very much interesting.Looking forward for more news coming from Search Engine Arena.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I don’t like the part of bing that shows site preview because this can hurt entering to websites.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Bing cannot catch Yahoo and Google. Microsoft will lose much money with this project.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Bing is not work for webmasters and is not useful.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I think Bing is not good.
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
[...] press came out when Microsoft released Bing, and to tell you the truth, the fact that it held even number two for a day was pretty amusing. Mainly because most people didn’t know what it [...]
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
[...] At least according to Statcounter, Bing search engine edged past Yahoo into the number 2 spot in search. This was as of June 4th, and was true both worldwide and in the US. Whether Bing will hold this position over time remains to be seen. Of course, you need to put this in perspective: Google is still a huge leader in search, with about 87% of search worldwide (according to Statcounter). Here’s what the trends look like: [...]
June 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
[...] but a ‘decision engine’, providing intelligent results and a rich media experience. Early reports show that Bing has already overtaken Yahoo! as the number 2 search engine of [...]
June 24th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I don’t like bing. Its result is different from google and yahoo. I don’t know it is bad or good, but I don’t like it.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:01 am
the web is such an overwhelming collection of information that search has to improve and become more relevant, hopefully this will reduce googles complacency
June 25th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Bing has disappeared from the list of search engines that are sending visitors to my blog.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Bing cannot compete with Google. Bing sells itself as a smarter search engine than yahoo and Google, and asserts they are annoying. But what is so different about Bing? I decided to test Bing against Google this morning, and this is what I found:
I searched for info on a rare brain disorder (Hepato Cerebral Degeneration of the brain/non-Wilson type). I typed “hepatodegenerationofthebrain”into both Google and Bing; Bing “found no results”, while Google was intuitive, separated the words, and offered me 2 choices that were related to my search. Then, I typed in ‘hepato cerebral degeneration of the brain’; Bing came up with sites about Wilson’s disease, which is not the disorder I am researching…while Google not only corrected my spelling (hepatocerebral degeneration), all 10 results on the first page were about the disorder. Only 4 of the 10 results Bing offered me were actually on the subject I was searching. And the first 3 listed were not.
So, tell me again why I should use Bing?
June 27th, 2009 at 2:18 am
How can I tell if Bing is “seeing” all of my site? I don’t see where to let them know I am here. I am getting some hits from them, but not on my top pages.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I see that Bing has beaten both google and yahoo by a wide margin on my website according to statcounter and msn and live have disappeared. The quality of traffic remains the same, just don’t seem to be as many hits from google or yahoo.
June 27th, 2009 at 6:31 am
I think Bing will take some getting used to. Once you’re addicted to Google it’s hard to surf elsewhere. Google still seems to be the market leader in peoples eyes but it appears the data no longer supports this idea.
June 27th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
[...] le site Stat counter Global state, Bing a bien dépassé Yahoo jeudi 4 juin 2009 dans le nombre de [...]
June 27th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I think Bing is doing great..lets see if he can beat Google..i don’t think so but he have the chances..
June 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
It looks like many people are testing this new search engine. If they like it, they might stick to it. Nothing lasts forever on Internet and it will be interesting to see if Bing keeps its share after its first weeks.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I was not surprised to see it fall back down but I am surprised people are expecting this to stay. Do you not know how much money microsoft is pouring into BING advertising right now? An unsustainable amount. Once they cut back the advertising, the share will fall once again. For the money they are putting into this, they should have retaken 2nd place weeks ago.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 am
It remains to be seen whether the inertia of internet surfers’ habit (which is to use Google mostly) will be stronger than the force of innovation
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
The whole world of search engines and keyword research is fascinating to me, and I spend hours in it (I must like research obviously with a PhD degree), but for some reason I feel as though I will continue to use Google mostly, and I think most people will do the same. Will the hard facts of stats prove me wrong?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 am
Hmm - I seem to come up pretty well on it for some keywords, but far less so for others.
I wonder if they’ve got a site map submissions page…
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I’ve been following Bing pretty closely. STATCOUNTER has pulled together some good information on how Bing’s been doing so far - it’s been interesting to watch. I do wonder if it’s just a fad, or if they will be able to continually move in on Google’s market share.
I don’t know that any search engine will ever overtake Google, but Microsoft did do a good maneuver with Bing as they didn’t buy Yahoo. So far we’ve noticed that Bing is drawing in better sales than we were getting on the MSN networks - for pay per click sales.
I also wonder what types of algorithms Bing uses for organic listings. They do appear to use something quite different than Google does. One thing is for sure - there will always be dynamic changes in the world of search engines.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
great news.. thanks
July 4th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Do you think its down to the marketing and hype or just the quality of results it attains. Not too impressed myself much prefer Yahoo, still its early days.
July 5th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Yes, I see now that I am getting more and more visitors from Bing, in fact the numbers that I get from Bing are almost the same that I get from Yahoo.
Of course Google is far ahead of BOTH of them by a LOOOONG way.
July 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I don’t know that any search engine will ever overtake Google, but Microsoft did do a good maneuver with Bing as they didn’t buy Yahoo. So far we’ve noticed that Bing is drawing in better sales than we were getting on the MSN networks - for pay per click sales.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:42 am
I am not impressed with Bling .. ooops sorry …. meant to say Bing ! …. the Search Results are poor compared to Google. I never used Yahoo anyway so can’t compare against that.
July 13th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Give it time they’re trying to give us a new kind of search engine
July 13th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I don’t think Bing will be popular in Europe. Some of the stuff it’s capable of is only for US.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:25 am
wow, i never thought it would be so fast. Yahoo actually has been showing a lot of spammy sites for search results. I am tired of using Yahoo. Google will still be my leading search engine, but i definitely will give Bing a try.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Hmm, it’s going to take a lot for me to not use Google as my main search engine. It’s the best out there for finding relevant information. I doubt Bing will ever out compete them. I guess we’ll see.
Thanks for the info though!
July 15th, 2009 at 1:08 am
I was using Live services since quiet some time. I like meaning search and some other small stuff from Live. But the first time, I see bettter results from Bing for my query “hotkeys undo redo” over Google. Looks like there is a trend going here if it is true, google has to improve their algorithems to keep-up. Now I can recommend someone to go try out bing!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
[...] le site Stat counter Global state, Bing a bien dépassé Yahoo jeudi 4 juin 2009 dans le nombre de [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I have more traffic from bing.
Thanks for the info
July 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Worldwide, comparing the two weeks before and after the Bing launch, StatCounter reports a similar trend with Microsoft taking market share.
July 21st, 2009 at 7:57 am
will bing able to get closer to google traffic?
July 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
[...] people over from Google. Overall the response to Bing has been relatively positive. However after Bing passed Yahoo in search volume and then immediately fell beneath Yahoo again – it was time to check in directly with their [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
OMG, Google is far far ahead from Yahoo and Bing.
Nice Info. Thanks.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:04 am
thanks super statics
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Yes, I am seeing a lot of my visitors now coming from Bing (more than what were coming from the old MSN Live engine) but it may be more because now Bing seems to be well integrated as a “default” in many Microsoft apps.
As of now I guess Google is still No 1, with Yahoo at No 2 and Bing at No 3.
As for Ask, I hardly see any visitors from it nowadays.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Hmm, it’s going to take a lot for me to not use Google as my main search engine. It’s the best out there for finding relevant information. I doubt Bing will ever out compete them. I guess we’ll see.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I have noticed bing in my stats more and more. They are doing some great advertising also. Wonder how they will do against Google in the long run.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Google finds content way before other engines. Its rediculous how long it takes the others to index a new website.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:41 am
It’s good to see that Google has (or will at some point) have at least some kind of run for their money as Yahoo has been dropping in significance for years now
July 27th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Very useful information.
Bing is doing a lot better than the old search engine, but still Google is doing great. I hope slowly some search engines get a bigger share.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I’m not too surprised…BING is pumping money into their engine but most folks I talk to just aren’t seeing enough of a difference to switch from their beloved Google or Yahoo queries.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
[...] made headlines last month when it overtook Yahoo as the number 2 search engine in the U.S. Wolfram Alpha also made a big splash recently similar [...]
July 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
[...] Unidos e algo em torno de 11% no cenário internacional, segundo previsões da comScore e da StatCounter. Esse acordo pode ser o início de uma grande transformação no segmento, já que os algoritmos [...]
July 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
[...] Con questa mossa Microsoft diventerà il concorrente più diretto di Google nel settore del search, arrivando ad una quota di mercato di circa il 28% negli USA (comScore) e di circa il 10% a livello mondiale (StatCounter). [...]
July 29th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
[...] search, with a market share of about 28% in the US (comScore, June 2009) and about 11% worldwide (StatCounter). After a successful relaunch in May, Microsoft’s search engine didn’t convince many [...]
July 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
[...] Con questa mossa Microsoft diventerà il concorrente più diretto di Google nel settore del search, arrivando ad una quota di mercato di circa il 28% negli USA (comScore) e di circa il 10% a livello mondiale (StatCounter). [...]
July 30th, 2009 at 8:19 am
This is essentially Microsoft’s long-awaited takeover of Yahoo’s web search portal, but packaged in a way that will be more palatable to Yahoo — minimising the hurt caused to Yahoo’s tender pride. It’s a take-over by another name.
“That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
July 30th, 2009 at 8:21 am
[...] search, with a market share of about 28% in the US (comScore, June 2009) and about 11% worldwide (StatCounter). After a successful relaunch in May, Microsoft’s search engine didn’t convince many [...]
July 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
[...] Yahoo has had a decent percentage of the search market share, and the combination with Bing will create a larger competitor: Bing will become Google’s main competitor in search, with a market share of about 28% in the US (comScore, June 2009) and about 11% worldwide (StatCounter). [...]
July 31st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Now Bing cooperates with Yahoo search. So, is it time for Google to feel fear? I would say NO.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:25 am
WOW !!!! Great News. I love BING
. And as far i know Bing and Yahoo committed to work together.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
Really great, i will try optimize for bing
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I don’t like the part of bing that shows site preview because this can hurt entering to websites.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:33 am
[...] farà il 16% negli States ma a livello mondiale muove fra il 3 e il 5,5% e rischia di essere trattato, visto il valore, alla stregua di una semplice anomalia [...]