16 July 2010

Microsoft edging up in search market

Microsoft is gradually moving up the ladder as Google continues to dominate the search market.

According to figures for the US, its overall share jumped 7 percent in June compared to the previous month.

Ã¢â¬ÅâœWhile the software maker's gains are coming mostly at the expense of partner Yahoo, whose search operations it will soon absorb, new data shows that Bing is also chipping away at Google's dominant position,Ã¢â¬~ said InformationWeek.

Microsoft launched Bing in June of 2009, when it captured 5.25 percent of the US market.

With its share currently at 9.85 percent, Bing has grown 88 percent in just 12 months.

Yahoo's share has declined 11.24 percent over the same period, while Google is down 3.2 percent over that span.

Ã¢â¬ÅâœWhile those numbers might not strike fear into Google, the trend should evoke at least some concern from the search leader,Ã¢â¬~ wrote Information Week.

Microsoft will likely become a more formidable competitor later this year or early next when its partnership with Yahoo fully takes effect.

Under that deal, Bing will become the default search engine on Yahoo's Web properties. In exchange, Microsoft will share revenue generated by those searches with Yahoo.

Bing, according to Microsoft, is designed to deliver a more functional experience than existing search engines, including Google's.

By TravelMole US

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Are we really talking world wide?

Turkey has major problems with freedom at the moment and one of the targets the Islamic government has is Google as it owns Youtube. Other than a proxy sever the 70 million plus population have interupted service for google so will definately be using an alternative. Today I cannot use google Earth because some of the IP addresses the government has closed.

By Karen Henderson, Friday, July 16, 2010