Bing claims 8 percent rise in users during June
Microsoft said Bing users increased by 8 percent following its June launch.
(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Microsoft's internal data credits the launch of its new Bing search engine with an 8 percent boost in unique visitors during June.
It's been clear for a while that Bing's launch produced gains for Microsoft during its initial month, but the degree to which that gain was produced by those strolling by as a lark or by those actually using the service daily was unclear. Microsoft released data Monday claiming an 8 percent gain in unique users during the month, and said "based on our own polling, we have also seen the number of people 'likely to recommend' Bing double in our debut month."
Microsoft relaunched its search engine business in early June with the introduction of Bing. The company confirmed that the data outlined above refers to June 2009 as compared to May 2009, prior to the launch of the new service.
Three times as much traffic landed on Bing Shopping during the month, and Bing Travel has increased its traffic by 90 percent. Advertisers also saw some gains, according to Microsoft; a "large wireless communications company" enjoyed a 28 percent increase in clicks in the Bing era.
The steady drip-drip of data points regarding Bing's market share has been a bit over the top--Statscounter twice issued press releases based on day-to-day estimates of traffic--but it's pretty safe to say that the launch has gone well for Microsoft. How well? Data from companies like Compete and Hitwise point to only very small gains, according to Search Engine Land, which believes the real evidence of Bing's staying power will come once the summer vacation period ends and overall search queries rise.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. 
That is all well and good, but I want good search results, not coloful web pages. So while you are waiting around for "what is possible", I'll be finding the information I am searching for.
It's well known that Microsoft does this, and like Super2online, they are rarely smart enough to temper their unbridled enthusiasm for everything Microsoft to prevent it from being blindingly obvious.
Or, you can just believe that Super2online just happens to think that every single Microsoft product is the greatest thing since sliced bread. From my count, he is in love with Bing, the Zune, Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Windows Mobile, Microsoft Cashback, the Xbox 360, MSN Premium, Windows Live OneCare, Silverlight, Windows Live Social Networking and a few other Microsoft products that I have never heard of.
And of course, he hates Google, Android, Apple, Linux, and any other company that competes with Microsoft.
We get it Super2, you think that everything that Microsoft does is the greatest thing in the world. They do no wrong. I'm very sure that you have no vested interest in Microsoft at all.
http://www.cnet.com/8726-4_1-0-2.html?username=Super2online&rpp=10&tag=page
So anyone who doesn't hate Microsoft or jumps on the bandwagon to be cool must be paid by Microsoft?
Nice logic..
This is a fine example of internet idiocy.
Btw where is your proof?
Why is it okay to support Apple for anything from iPhone to them pissing in your coffee but supporting MS for anything means were paid.
Get a life troll.
And why is this so hard to believe. MS has spent more money than the GDP of most small countries on search over the past few years, I would expect a payoff. Don't need to work for MS to figure that one out. And people forget that search is the most fickle beast on the internet. We have just been lulled over the past few years because Google really did have a very, very tangible lead. But before that search gap created by Google, there was Alta Vista and Yahoo!.
I am certainly not predicting Google's demise, that would be silly. But clearly there is room for two serious players in this market and I think Bing is here to stay.
Good thing Google itself does not think like you as the reports were that Segey himself was very upset at seeing the innovation in Bing and decided to personally get back involved in kicking off key projects
Your post history is more than enough for people to draw their own conclusions, but your post history indicates 100% that you have a vested interest in promoting Microsoft products.
One of us is trying to help others, the other is trying to mislead people. I'll let the reader's decide who they wish to believe.
I don't go around on a hate Microsoft agenda either.
But pray tell me why is it that we can have people who post comments like "Microsoft sucks Apple is the best" at every article but I can attempt to separate fact from fiction with some of these claims and i'm all of a sudden a shill? Anyone who doesn't support Apple at every turn or refuses to sit and bash Microsoft for any reason is harassed and called a troll?
Thats the problem with these tech sites if you support Apple your rewarded if you support Microsoft your ridiculed. I have never once blatantly straight up and attacked Apple for no reason even when they do wrong I just keep my mouth shut but what I will do is defend Microsoft when blatant claims like "OMG Windows crashes like 300 times a day or other BS"
I don't hate the companies I hate the fanboys and I hate the pure Praise Apple be rewarded Bash Microsoft be ridiculed its like a damn cult not a better word for it.
Sorry, didn't realize that you responded to my post for Super2.
it has nothing to do with supporting Microsoft or not, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
But there is a big difference between someone who is giving their opinion and someone who is a paid shill. Super2online has posted hundreds of comments, and every one of them touts the virtues of every single Microsoft product, or bad mouths a competing company.
It doesn't matter if the person is a shill for Apple, Microsoft or any other company. A shill is a person attempting to deceive people, and that is the problem.
Same thing with Bing. I configured my browser to open my home page, Google and Bing on different tabs. After a week or so I found myself using Bing almost exclusively. I don't even think about using Google anymore.
I realize that is just me, but as I read these articles and blogs about Bing, I see quite a few people who are switching from Google to Bing. I mean it's not like the entire Internet is flocking to Bing, but there are more folks who are moving than I think was anticipated. These are not folks who were Live users or MSN users.
And the Bing home page one reason people give. They like the daily graphic that give tidbits of information. Yes, it make take an instant longer to load than Google, but it's not like most people are on dial-up anymore.
Since the day Bing came out, there's only been one time thus far in my hundred searches each day where I didn't quickly find my answer and found it on Google.
I love the home page, because it does load fast, and the pictures are cool, especially with the little hover-over-for-information squares and the option to look at past days' photos.
It's very easy and quick to switch to image or video search, and I like the sidebar it gives you of the other results when you select an image.
I still like Yahoo over Google, but Bing is best for now.
As they're in it to hold gains over a period of years, then one can easily see why Microsoft is putting so much effort into search. It's like printing money and they were foolish to let Google dominate for so long with no real competition.
I just can't see a sustained 8% gain though... to give you an idea that delta alone would easily exceed the total annual revenue Apple brings in from all iTunes sales!
Worth stating again: Yahoo not buying Google for cheap when they were given the option was truly an epic fail in the history of business.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350139,00.asp
"Bing had about 8.17 percent marketshare in June in the U.S., and is averaging about 8.91 percent for July. That's behind Google, which had 78.48 percent marketshare in June, and is averaging the same amount for July."
At least Super2online is able to derive revenue from posting in these vacuous blogs. What are Steve and Sergi paying the rest of you clowns?
We will see Google, and Yahoo start to buy more media time to promote their own search engines. More product tie-ins, freebies, contests, celebrity spokesperson, anti-trust law suits... then, one day, everyone will realize that the money is not there anymore and move on with their lives.
There are only 2 - Google and Bing... Bing dominates
life is not just black and white. The enemy of you enemy is not your firend and the friend of your enemy is not necessarily your enemy.
Honestly, get a life. Stop your hate filled negative opinions. There are some of us out there who are true scientific technologists who sing the praise of whatever deserves it and criticise what doesn't.
I didn't used to to like Microsoft but now I do for very educated reasons. Tomorrow I may not. You don't have jack to say about that...
Just so that you know, I used to be a NextStep fan; after resisting for very long I just started using an iPhone and I programmed in Java for many years. But - I still like what Microsoft is doing in a lot of its initiatives right now. Again, I reserve the right to change my mind in the future and I will if the circumstances warrant it.
Unlike what you're doing I am not telling you that your opinions are crap. All I am saying is leave my opinions to me and you only defend your own with legitimate scientific evidence, but do it without invading my personal space and with legitimate material.
There is a difference between someone who has an opinion and someone who is paid to do so. I'm sorry that you can't see the difference.
http://www.cnet.com/8705-4_1-0.html?username=Super2online&tag=contentMain;contentBody
There are another thousand or so posters here, who have every single post of theirs all EXTREWMELY BIASED for Apple, so why don't you go terrorise them for a change eh?
Are you a paid Apple/Googlebot yourselgf by any chance?
@ CraigC2000 :"There is a difference between someone who has an opinion and someone who is paid to do so"
Correct.
Like the honest posters here, who have actually used Microsoft products and like them, and post here about them, and the mindless Apple/Googlebots who don't use Microsoft products, but are paid by Apple/Google to some polute every single Microsoft thread here wiith their bile and pure venom.
As I stated above, I prefer Microsoft Office to Open Office, I prefer any flavor of Windows to Linux and Mac OS. I also prefer the iPhone to WinMo, and Google web search to Bing web search, but I prefer Bing for video search and cash back. Like a normal, unbiased consumer I am open to all products from all companies. People who are rabid fans of any company are suspect, take from it what you will.
And to the best of my knowledge, Apple and Google have never been caught paying people to post pretending to be fans, but if they did I would be the first to point it out.
To the best of my knowledge, those people are just biased rabid fans. The fact is that anyone who posts all Anti-Microsoft comments and all Pro-anyone else is just as worthy of ignoring, but are you claiming that it would not offend you if a company paid people to post fake opinions?
http://www.ideastorm.com/ideaView?id=0877000000008qIAAQ
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/technology/24iht-msft.4331593.html
That may only go to prove that they are more able to keep their secrets than anyone else.
After all, Apple is notoriosuly tight lipped about everythig, so tight lipped that details of their new Apple products hardly ever leak out, whereas Microsoft's new product details almost awalys leak out.Just look at the recent E3 convention for example. Almost every sngle Microsoft new product announcement leaked out before E3, includiung Project Natal
So the fact that some Applebot asn't been caught getting paid by Apple to post pro-Apple propaganda yet, doesn't mean Apple has never done such a thing before, or doing it now. Steve Jobs is well known for using as much dirty tricks as anyone in business.
@ CraigC2000 :"The fact is that anyone who posts all Anti-Microsoft comments and all Pro-anyone else is just as worthy of ignoring"
At least haf the posters here do exactly that, fanatical Applebots 100% the time, and equally rabidly anti-Microsoft 100% of the time. It's remarkabake you never had anything to say about these Applebot characters, yet managed to zero in on one guy that you accuse of doing exactly the same thing the Applebots have been doing here for years, only in the opposite direction.
@ CraigC2000 :"but are you claiming that it would not offend you if a company paid people to post fake opinions?"
I am saying there is nothing that Super2online is doing, that the Applebots haven't done over a thousand times on this site, only difference is, the Applebots constantly post FOR Apple and against Microsoft.
1) As noted above, searching for air flights is a waste of effort, unless you like burning money
2) Searching for technical content is not as precise as Google -- oh, unless it's something in MSDN. It finds that stuff real fast.
3) The screen is too W-I-D-E. Yes, I have a wide screen. And I have a big screen. But, I bought a big, wide screen so that I can open multiple windows, not so that I can donate a large portion of my desktop to the browser and bing!
4) I got spoiled by Google's calculator, currency converter, unit converter, and other nifty toys available right from the search box. Type "50 USD = ? Euros" or "diameter of the sun" or "768 in = ? m" into bing and you don't get anything useful. Perhaps those are not so popular? I love that about Google.
5) Today -- and this just started today -- opening Bing in IE8 (have not tried other browsers) works, but then after a few seconds, the cursor disappears. Something is stealing input focus. That makes Bing a bit less than useful, as I have to open the page, stare at it until input focus is stolen from the search box, then click on the search box again so I can go forward.
Otherwise, it has been pretty good. Perhaps one of the troubling aspects is that, having used bing for a little while, I know that when searching for certain things, bing and google will return different results. I find myself searching on both sometimes.
2) I'll have to keep an eye out for this, but I haven't noticed too much of a discrepancy between Bing's results and Google's in this area.
3) I'm a bit confused by this, as the Bing results pages scale as you scale your browser window. I currently have it open in a window and the results column gets narrower as you make the window smaller.
4) It may not have them all, but it does have some built in calculators as well. For your first example, type "50 usd to eur". It doesn't appear to have the diameter of the sun, however "768 in to m" (or the longer, yet more natural language "convert 768 in to meters") works.
5) Not sure about this one, don't use IE8 regularly.
Bing ROCKS!
Am I falling back in love with Microsoft?
Bing baby Bing!
I have all my porn in one place and I discovered some fetishes i didn't know I had.
- by AppleSuxLeo July 20, 2009 1:50 PM PDT
- One percent gain would be great. Eight percent is fantastic.
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (60 Comments)Brin and Schmidt have been staying up late and trying to figure out while MSFT is gaining market share.
Google is ugly and hasn`t changed in a long time.
The Yahoo/MSFT deal is almost done and then Google may need to get some ulcer medicine.