Windows 7: Bing gains market share

Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, has managed to take the third spot in the top search providers for August 2009. Bing was launched back in May 2009 and has managed to snatch 10.7% market share with 1.1 billion searches in August 2009.

Bing has a month-over-month growth of 22.1%, becoming the fastest growing search engine in the top 10 search providers. Bing also just released Visual Search earlier this week that returns thumbnail images using Silverlight. Microsoft will also be releasing Bing 2.0 sometime in the near future, adding new features to the decision engine.



Google still takes the top spot with 64.6% total market share, an increase of 2.6% over last month, generating almost 7 billion searches for August 2009. Yahoo! search comes in second place with 16.0%, a decrease of 4.2% over July 2009, generating 1.7 billion searches.

Microsoft has recently signed a deal with Yahoo! to make a Bing powered search, with a ten year term, merging the two technologies to create a single search engine to compete with Google.

AOL and Ask.com search fall into the fourth and fifth spot. AOL brought in 333 million searches, while Ask.com only received 186 million.

Thanks to dhan for the post.

Using real world metrics from all my sites I would put bing at 4-5% comapared with googles 80%

From the data I have bing is only making small advances and that is at the expense of the smaller engines such as Yahoo and AOL.

Meanwhile, Google are about to roll out "caffeine" which is their next generation search technology which (I have had a play with this) does provide even better more relevant results than their current engine.

From my tests caffeine consistently produced more relevant results with a massive reduction in spam sites, I would say on the 1-10 scale the improvement is a 6.

Going back to Bing, when you take into account that it is the default search engine when windows is installed, and every time you install an MS product these days it wants to change your default provider to Bing, then it's a total failure!! given the placement of the product in front of millions of windows users the market share is a disgrace.

From my tests caffeine consistently produced more relevant results with a massive reduction in spam sites, I would say on the 1-10 scale the improvement is a 6.

Going back to Bing, when you take into account that it is the default search engine when windows is installed, and every time you install an MS product these days it wants to change your default provider to Bing, then it's a total failure!! given the placement of the product in front of millions of windows users the market share is a disgrace.