Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
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Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
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Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#2Hat's off to Microsoft on this one - they've earned it.
I don't use Bing for my day to day search but I've used their travel search and it's not too bad. It's definitely no Hipmunk, but it's clean, minimal and pretty snappy.
They've made some effort to take a dull product, make it useful, improve its design and differentiate it from the competition. Yeah, the logo is hideous and embarrassing. Yeah, they've also spent a lot of cash on the advertising.
In the end, though, they've expended more effort in making their search product worth using than Yahoo has recently. So bravo.
Meanwhile: Boy, has Yahoo just lost its fighting spirit or what? What are they doing over there? There's never any interesting news from their corner. Stuck in the mud. They don't even own their search results or PPC product anymore. It's a shame, they've got a good and trusted brand.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#3That's good for BING, only 52% to go. (well, actually more like 26% to achieve parity).
I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time.
Bing growing 30% per year and two percent per month means that they're already flattening out though.
In the article they note that since BING now powers Yahoo! search since August that BING actually has a marketshare that is roughly 26% instead of the 14% it has on its own domain.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#4All that aggressive advertising looks like it has paid off. And competition is always good for any market.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#5That's good for BING, only 52% to go. (well, actually more like 26% to achieve parity). I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time. Bing growing 30% per year and two percent per month means that they're already flattening out though. In the article they note that since BING now powers Yahoo! search since August that BING actually has a marketshare that is roughly 26% instead of t…
> I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time.
That would work if they hadn't grown in the previous 11 months. Unless I'm reading it wrong, which is always a possibility.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#6These numbers seem off to me. Does anyone here actually run a site where Google is only 65% of your incoming search traffic?
Looking at traffic for a few of my own sites (mostly tech related, admittedly), Google is consistently in the 92-96% range.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#7Is it that big of a deal considering Bing powers Yahoo search anyway...? The two companies have a partnership.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#8That's good for BING, only 52% to go. (well, actually more like 26% to achieve parity). I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time. Bing growing 30% per year and two percent per month means that they're already flattening out though. In the article they note that since BING now powers Yahoo! search since August that BING actually has a marketshare that is roughly 26% instead of t…
> I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time. That would work if they hadn't grown in the previous 11 months. Unless I'm reading it wrong, which is always a possibility.
On a table listed in 1/10th of a percent I find that unlikely.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#9Hat's off to Microsoft on this one - they've earned it. I don't use Bing for my day to day search but I've used their travel search and it's not too bad. It's definitely no Hipmunk, but it's clean, minimal and pretty snappy. They've made some effort to take a dull product, make it useful, improve its design and differentiate it from the competition. Yeah, the logo is hideous and embarrassing. Yeah, they've also spent…
For sure. For a while there, I tried it as my default. I came back to Google for the long tails on my obscure coding error searches, but until the recent Google revamp, I would go back to Bing specifically for image searches.
Also, I still use Bing for certain, ahem, less savory searches. They have Google beat for that. I think they optimize for it, whereas Google has stated that they don't key on it either way.
Either way, shaking up the search landscape is a good thing for all of us even if you never touch Bing. Google has definitely been forced back to innovate their search UX since Bing has come out (Image search, Instant, reformatting the results screen, etc.). We all win in that scenario.
Re: Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the #2 U.S. Search Engine
#10These numbers seem off to me. Does anyone here actually run a site where Google is only 65% of your incoming search traffic? Looking at traffic for a few of my own sites (mostly tech related, admittedly), Google is consistently in the 92-96% range.
83% for google, 5% for bing, 5% for yahoo, 7% small fry. 100 K uniques on that site per day
84% for google, 6% yahoo, 3% bing, 7% small fry, 1.8 M uniques / day on that site.
That's according to analytics ;)