The next generation of WindowsMicrosoft'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.
(Credit: 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
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".
And 100m realistically for Microsoft is nothing.
Hell Bill Gates probably gets that every year just in interest.
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.
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
- 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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