Showing posts with label Bing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bing. Show all posts

12 April 2011

Report: Bing Comprised 30% of Web Searches in March

"Micrsoft's Bing powered 30% of Internet searches during the month of March, says a report from online research firm Experian Hitwise."

16 December 2010

Microsoft: Bing Has 90 Million Users, Nearly 50% Growth Since Launch

"Microsoft is saying that its Bing search engine now has more than 90 million users and has grown by nearly 50% since its launch a year and a half ago."

14 September 2010

Microsoft's Bing Search Tops Yahoo

"For the first time, Microsoft's Bing search engine has more U.S. users than Yahoo, researcher Nielsen said today. In August, Bing had 13.9% of the U.S. search market, compared to 13.1% for Yahoo."

27 August 2010

Google Realtime Search Challenges Bing, Twitter

"Google’s latest move in real-time search, the launch of a dedicated page that aggregates of-the-moment information from Twitter and other sources, represents yet another escalation in the search-engine giant’s competition against Microsoft’s Bing."

17 May 2010

Google's Search Market Share Slips as Bing Rivalry Heats Up

"The company's share of U.S. searches slipped to 64.4% percent in April, down from 65.1% in March, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Yahoo's share rose to 17.7%, up from 16.9%, while Microsoft Bing crept to 11.8%, up from 11.7%."

10 March 2010

Bing Search Up 37% Since Launch

"Microsoft's share of U.S. search traffic increased to 11.5% in February from 10.7% in January, according to figures released Wednesday by market watcher comScore. Yahoo, currently the number two player in the market, saw its share fall from 17% to 16.8% over the same period."

21 December 2009

Yahoo Losing Search Ground to Google, Bing

"Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google. Yahoo's search market share in November fell to 17.5% from 18% in October, according to a monthly comScore report released late Wednesday. It's the lowest share ever recorded for Yahoo."

03 December 2009

4 Ways Microsoft's Bing Could Challenge Google

"On Dec. 2, Microsoft introduced new features for Bing that included the beta version of the updated Bing Maps, as well as Visual Search integrated with Facebook and Twitter feeds. With a massive marketing campaign over the summer, and an ever-increasing number of new features, Bing's market-share has climbed to 9.6 percent of the U.S. search-engine market, still lagging far behind Google at 70.6 percent."

17 November 2009

Google Again Leads US Search Market; Bing Gains In October

"Google Inc. (GOOG) again led the U.S. core search market in October, but Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) bing.com also posted market-share gains, according to market research firm comScore Inc. (SCOR). The search leader had a 65.4% share in October, posting a 4% month-on-month rise to 9.4 million core searches. Microsoft's upstart site had a 9.9% share and handled 8% more searches."

12 November 2009

Microsoft's Bing Video Search Revamped

"Microsoft has just announced a major revamping of Bing's video search function and a new partnership with Wolfram|Alpha, the free online data mining service."

03 September 2009

Study: Bing better than Google in Canada

"Hitwise search analyst Heather Hopkins has uncovered evidence affirming that Microsoft's new Bing search engine may be substantially more effective than Google at getting high quality search results -- at least for Canadians. Hopkins has compiled data that shows Canadians using Bing find the results they were looking for 78.7% of the time compared to a 67.6% percent success rate using Google."

04 August 2009

Microsoft's Bing Gains Another 1 Percent of U.S. Search

"Microsoft increased its share of the U.S. Internet search market by another 1 percentage point in July, taking its combined share with new search partner Yahoo to 20.36 percent, according to data released on Monday."

16 July 2009

Bing & Twitter Mesh With BingTweets

"BingTweets enables you to see deeper, real-time information about the hottest topics on Twitter by fusing Bing search results with the latest tweets."

27 June 2009

"Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, impresses users—but not enough to make them switch from Google, TechCrunch reports. Asked to rate Bing’s feature

"Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, impresses users—but not enough to make them switch from Google, TechCrunch reports. Asked to rate Bing’s features, users in a study by the Catalyst Group thought Bing beat Google in almost every category, including visual design, organization, and filtering options. The exception was search result relevance, in which they found Google and Bing to be equal. Nonetheless, two-thirds of the users said they wouldn’t switch because of their familiarity with Google."

17 June 2009

Microsoft Search Still Growing with Bing: comScore

"Microsoft Corp's share of Internet searches continued to grow for a second week after the introduction of its new search engine Bing, industry tracker comScore Inc said on Wednesday. ComScore said Microsoft's share of search result pages in the United States rose to 12.1 percent for the period of June 8-12, up from 11.3 percent in the June 1-5 period, and up from 9.1 percent in the work week prior to Bing's introduction."