Bing gains 7% in US search market as Google falters
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- Nov 30, 2009
The number of US searches conducted on Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has risen 7% in the past four weeks, while Google fell 1%, according to new research from Hitwise.
Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 31, 2009.
Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.14 percent, 9.57 percent and 2.62 percent, respectively.
The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.10 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers |
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Domain |
September 2009 |
October 2009 |
Month-over-month percent change |
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www.google.com |
71.08% |
70.60% |
-1% |
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search.yahoo.com |
16.38% |
16.14% |
-1% |
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www.bing.com* |
8.96% |
9.57% |
7% |
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www.ask.com |
2.56% |
2.62% |
2% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Oct. 31, 2009, and Oct. 3, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. |
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*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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Source: Experian Hitwise |
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Source: www.hitwise.com
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