Microsoft's Bing has a second good week
It's still awfully early in the game, but Microsoft's Bing had a second good week, according to market share numbers released Wednesday by ComScore.
The search engine is up about 3 percentage points from where Microsoft was at pre-Bing in terms of both number of searchers and total query share. That represents another nearly 1 percentage point of share gain in both categories compared to its first week.
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ComScore)
For the week of June 8 to 12, Microsoft's search engines were used by 16.7 percent of those doing searches and accounted for 12.1 percent of all queries, both up 3 percentage points from where Microsoft was at before Bing's launch.
"It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week," ComScore Senior VP Mike Hurt said in a statement. "These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch."
Microsoft launched Bing at the beginning of the month, after a lengthy development period and months of internal testing.
For its part, Microsoft seems to recognize it is still very early. The software maker has declined to comment on the market share gains.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. 
1: Microsoft/Apple/Google/Linux is evil.
2: Microsoft/Apple/Google/Linux is the best thing ever.
3: Everyone who doesn't agree with the loudest person is by their very presence, wrong and an idiot.
4: Nothing anyone says here makes a darn bit of difference in the end, so don't bother wasting your breath on arguments on the internet.
5: I want a cheeseburger.
Now I think we can all agree on that list, especially #5, right?
It's just awesome to be able to waste millions for years and finally start to win. Good thing my competition doesn't have the cash cows that provides me unlimited funding to keep at it and wear them down. Whew.
I just wanted to know if that growth is being taken out of live.com/msn.com, or if it is actual marketshare growth overall (that is, is Microsoft's share of the search market growing, or just bing.com's?)
live/msn.com
Live.com redirects to bing and msn.com uses Bing as well.
A quick look at these to websites would of shown this.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77nolympia.phtml
@Dan - I'm with you on that cheeseburger! Don't forget the bacon though!
They do name the photographers, though it's hidden in the corner where you have to hover of the copyright symbol.
Over all, the page is very well put together, and constantly changes, which is awesome.
I like how Windows 7 comes with many nice backgrounds and the ability to automatically change them every so often: It would be great to combine the Bing homepage with the Windows 7 desktop, allowing new pictures from the internet with the little curiosity links!
Ballmer finally did something right!
Google is going down! Bing RULES!
I wouldn't be writing Google's obituary just yet though. They've got a lot of very smart people over there, too... and aren't going to just let Microsoft roll over them. This is going to be a clash of the titans. Get some popcorn, folks. ;)
Apple is lucky to have a weak looking leader, even if he's crazier than Ballmer at least you know you could KO him with a light slap across the face. I think that's what people are looking for when they are choosing their facorite corporate giant.
Well, you know the one about the blind squirrel and acorn, right?
I never put much stock in ComScore number to begin with, but from my perspective, at least, these numbers are clearly cooked. Internal server logs don't show any increase in Bing usage.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-daily-20090518-20090616
A few interesting stat's 94.1% of browser hits where IE 3.5% where FF
Search Redirects 52.8% was google, 42.8% Bing
Our content filter for internal employee's reports IE 99.8% (all desktop images are IE), search for last week had internal searchs at 81.9% Bing
Will be interested to see what the stats are in two weeks. Next week desktop team begins rolling out 21,000+ Vista Images so it will be an interesting few weeks.
If you just want Google, that's your choice, but if you want something better, you use Bing.
It's like driving around in the same 1995 Ford pickup while everyone else is driving 2010 models that are shinier, have more features, etc. The older truck does just as well and may even be superior on some areas, but it sure does look old and tired.
Interesting point. I'm not sure how Google can really address that without resorting to something like rebranding itself as "Google Classic Search".
"You can put lipstick on a pig..... "
And they still prefer to buy the pig with the shinies lipstick while ignoring the sow that is still wearing last year's shade of pink. That's the point I'm making. Doesn't matter how good the pig is- people go for the shiny new thing.
What I see is that Microsoft is finally turning a lot of the pig into tasty, tasty bacon. Sure their products are not perfect, but Microsoft seems to have raised their game. I just care about getting my (programming) work done, and OS X, Windows, and Linux are all perfectly suitable for what I do. The tone in Redmond seems to have changed somewhat from what I've read over the last ~year though, and I would certainly not underestimate Microsoft's ability to deliver a quality product.
As for "people go for the shiny new thing", I 1/2 agree with this. I think some people do, but at the end of the day it mostly comes down to Microsoft stopping the bleed of people switching to another engine the moment they do a search. Live.com was crap imho... I've been trying bing the last couple weeks as my default engine and it's pretty good. I mostly search for technical/programming documentation and it seems just as good as Google.
Bad analogy my friend considering Ford makes some of the highest quality vehicles on the road and they are affordable
Price=/=Quality
I can charge you $200 for a toaster does it mean its better then the comparable $50 one no.
And 100m realistically for Microsoft is nothing.
Hell Bill Gates probably gets that every year just in interest.
Hardly "pathetic".
Did you know IBM used holocaust labor back in that time so did Mercedes and tons of other American and European companies today but no one calls them evil today so why are criticizing a company that did maybe one controversial thing almost 20 years ago?
I too think they aren?t shaking in fear at Google, but they should take notice. Microsoft just became a powerful player in online search, and their presence is here to stay. Plus they are the only company with capital enough to challenge Google by continuing to make investment in infrastructure.
I hate the picture on the search page. It's unnecessary bloat when I want to do a fast search from a slow connection.
The picture loads asynchronously. No matter how slow your connection, the picture will never cause a delay. The page is completely functional while the pic is loading.
As others pointed out - you can turn off the pic if you want to.
Peace.
Google 459
Bing 14
Now sites like
NBC
FOX
NYTimes
Microsoft
Etc are what get the real numbers.
After 17 years... I am still waiting to find out what the following are as I have heard of them but never experienced them...
1. Crash
2. Blue screen of death
3. Virus
4. Malware
5. Worm
6. Botnet
7. User error
8. Tutti Fruiti Spinning Wheel
9. Freeze
10. System failure
Love to see your "high end graphics and video". Bet it's awesome (ROFL) <- see what I did there
I work for the newspaper and run a design business from home as well. The rest of your post was pointless so I won't address it.
KMFA<---- see what I did?
- by dp4548 June 17, 2009 10:45 AM PDT
- Has anyone else mentioned this... I got a fortune cookie lat week, FIRST week of BIng, right? The learn chinese word was "Disease" and it is "bing"!!
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- by ncalishome June 17, 2009 2:43 PM PDT
- What's weird is that a fortune cookie would have the word disease on it... That's about the last thing I want to think about after eating.
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- by ncalishome June 17, 2009 2:50 PM PDT
- BTW, the Chinese version is called "biying", which means "must respond/answer", and it's being marketed as a "decision engine".
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