Bing gains more market share again

[Kay]

Hitwise, an online traffic monitor, today reported that Google last month remained firmly at the head of the search pack while its rival's well regarded Microsoft Bing product gradually picks up a little traction.

Google held a 70.95% share of the search market in February, according to Hitwise. In recent months Google has maintained its wide lead with search market share totals ranging from a low of 70.60% last October to a high of 72.25% in December.Microsoft Bing, which held its third place spot behind Google and new partner Yahoo last month, has been moving in the right direction in recent months, rising from 8.92% of the search market in December to 9.37% in January and improving again to 9.70% last month.

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, isn't surprised that Bing has been slow to make its mark in a market so dominated by Google.

"Even if [Bing] is getting traction, growth would be slow," Gottheil said. "People don't change without some impetus. Google isn't broken. Why fix it? At best, it's going to be a long road for Microsoft."

On the other hand, Gottheil noted that Bing isn't doing badly for a relatively new product -- "9.7% of a huge business is a large business."

Google Still Tops, but Bing Inches Ahead - PCWorld

Shouldn't Google be getting nervous?

[seoexpert22]

No one can beat google in the running of search engine, coz google introduced new things

[Hotter_DV]

Yes its true google has been covered 70% search market and bing is only in 3 to 4 percent then its improving but little bit is not sufficient to beat google.

[FlightCenter]

They will have to dig, scratch, and claw their way to more market share but it looks as though they are in it for the long haul with the spending spree on marketing online and TV. The merger with Yahoo might make this a legit number 2 but for now Google is the king of the castle.

[vanilla23]

Yahoo & Bing together intend to beat Google so bing search market increases.

[motoridder]

There will have to pass much more time so that Yahoo & Bing could pose a greater threat to Google's SE market share.... but don't know if you realized that the SE's market share for searching images is collapsing hard for Google Image Search.. instead Bing is great with pictures (the trick is that Bing uses a new algorithm regarding the indexing of images)

[anthon]

Good luck Bing.
Show google that he is not the only fish in the pond.

[Mark121]

I don't think so that bing can beat google because all the search engines are too far compare to google.

[motoridder]

I don't think so that bing can beat google because all the search engines are too far compare to google.

Really? I do not know what to say, but at least you must recognize that Google implementatn a slight different algorithms for their Images section (after the Bing model)

This days, the more users are using one SE, the slower it is improving. But what the *ack, maybe it's only in my mind

[lexus1717]

Well its true bing is the major search engine where we can drive traffic from various sites and ranking in bing is not so easy..and dudes please follow only whitw hat tactics.Dont go for easy traffic.Better have traffic to your site in a long run


lexus