Microsoft Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search
June 5th, 2009Statcounter says recently launched Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! Search as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide on Thursday (4th June)!
StatCounter Global Stats is a free online service which tracks market share of search engines, browsers and operating systems. A StatCounter press release confirms the the event
StatCounter’s analysis for Thursday 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%. StatCounter data globally finds that Bing at 5.62% has taken a narrow lead over Yahoo! (5.13%). Google worldwide retains 87.62% of the market.
Here are the June 4 Global Stats and US Stats. The netizens have given a huge positive response to Microsoft’s new browser Bing, and it is to be seen if the euphoria will sustain.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Search Engine Market Share
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The big question now is whether Microsoft will take a big chunk out of Yahoo’s paid search revenue, as mentioned here: Does Microsoft Bing Change Paid Search.
You put wrong hyperlink
Pls change this, thanks
Thanks. I have fixed the link.
Hey.. It must be wrong.. and there ‘IS’ wrong in their site (StatCounter’s) check these charts of same data -
Line Chart :
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-US-daily-20090529-20090604
Bar Chart :
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-US-daily-20090529-20090604-bar
Please check this out and edit you post buddy..
The bar chart seems to be wrong. But the line chart is right. Statcounter needs to verify the difference.
should you make a question ? on the post title?
They made it already ? strange ..
It’s true that Bing is a promising SE , it has many new features (I noticed that they are trying to make some kind of merge between Google and Wolframalpha), and they have the best images search engine (better then google IMHO)
But I think it’s just for short time because many users are “trying” it. The reason is that Bing is made by Microsoft, and many users would like to know how good this new “tool” is ..
Yahoo is dying, but not because of Bing .