Bing Captures Yahoo Search Share

November 17, 2009

The Google seems to be chugging along, indifferent and unscathed by Bing.com. You can get market share data from “Microsoft Search Share Continues Its Slow Upward Crawl.” The article has a particularly sharp observation in my opinion:

If Microsoft’s search game plan is built on the idea of growing share substantially by combining forces with Yahoo, Yahoo’s continuing share loss is looking less and less likely to shore up that plan.

More trouble for Yahoo. Once Bing.com buries Yahoo, what’s next for Microsoft search? Will the UX play chew into Google’s share of the Web search market? If these usage data are correct, Bing.com will nibble away like the mouse in my garage working on a chunk of rodent poison.

Stephen Arnold, November 17, 2009

I want be upfront in my report to the Fish & Wildlife Commission that I was not paid by anyone to write about Bing.com’s market share, mice, or Bill’s Pest Control’s tasty poison pellets.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Financial, Marketing, Microsoft, News, Search

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2 Responses to “Bing Captures Yahoo Search Share”

libhomo on November 17th, 2009 7:53 am

When I found out that Yahoo searches were eventually going to become Bing searches, I gave up on Yahoo. I’ve tried Bing, and it doesn’t work.
Ellis Morris on November 28th, 2009 11:48 pm

I think microsoft is going in the right directions with put they search on yahoo i just think yahoo takes so long with ranking website my own website rank bad in yahoo now but rank good in bing so once bing search covert over to yahoo my ranking will improve. I love yahoo email that want change i think yahoo got tired of put money into they search engine it takes a lot of money to have your own search tecnology and to keep up with the giant google bing is going in the right direction with yahoo making they brand more stronger google did it with aol and look at the giant now google on top.Bing will be 2nd biggest search engine in the world behind google that my opinion not just because my website rank well in google just because its stronger search engine.it will take bing years to catch up with the giant google.yahoo did give microsoft a 10 year deal but it might be to late for yahoo to come back in the game after 10 years bing will be number 2 plain and simple

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.