Search This Blog

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Google vs. Bing - an update

Image representing Microsoft as depicted in Cr...Image via CrunchBase

I just read on Reuters that Microsoft's Bing is continuing to grow its web search audience. It is still relatively small however compared to Google.

According to comScore:
  • June 8-12, Microsoft search accounted for 12.1% of U.S. Internet searches

  • June 1-5, Microsoft had 11.3% (the week Bing launched)

  • May 25-31, Microsoft had 9.1%
  • May (the rest of it), Microsoft had 8%

At the same in May, Google held 65 % of U.S. searches, and Yahoo! had 20.1%.
It will be very interesting to see if Bing is able to hold the 12%+ or gain more. Additionally, it will be interesting to see if their gains are at Google's expense or at Yahoo!'s. According to brand wisdom, it should be Yahoo! that suffers most.
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

No comments: