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Bing Gains US Market Share In February

White Fir Design — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:53:03 +0000

According to Nielsen’s US search share data for February, Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained 1.6 point of search share during the month. Bing gained a point of market share in the previous and their market share reached 12.5 percent this month. Google’s share was 65.2 percent, 1.1 points of search share less than the previous month. Yahoo’s share was 14.1 percent, a decrease of .4 points from the previous month.

Bing Gains Point of US Search Share in January

White Fir Design — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:02:05 +0000

According to Nielsen’s US search share data for January Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained a point of search share in January, increasing its share to 10.9 percent. Google’s share was 66.3 percent, a point of search share less than the previous month. Yahoo’s share was 14.5 percent, an increase of a tenth of point over the previous month.

Yahoo and Microsoft Receive Regulatory Clearance for Search Pact

White Fir Design — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:52:12 +0000

Yahoo and Microsoft announced today that they had received regulatory clearance from US and European regulators. Under the pact Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s AdCenter search advertising service will provide search ads to Yahoo Search. The companies had announced the pact in late July and reached a finalized agreement in December. The companies have set a goal of serving results from Bing in Yahoo Search in “at least the United States by the end of 2010″. The transition to serving ads from Microsoft’s advertising service in Yahoo Search is planned to occur “prior to the 2010 holiday season, but may wait until 2011 if they determine that the transition will be more effective after the holiday season”. They expect a full transition by early 2012. According to the companies, Yahoo will build its own “search experience” on top of Bing’s search results by “integrating rich Yahoo! content, enhanced listings with conveniently organized information about key topics, and tools to tailor the experience for Yahoo! users”

Google’s Chrome Continues to Gain Market Share

White Fir Design — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:49 +0000

Google’s Chrome continues to gain market share according to Net Applications data. It market share has increased 3.7 percentage points to 5.22 percent from the year ago period. Last month it surpassed Apple’s Safari as the third most popular web browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. Internet Explorer market has continued to decline. In the last year it last 7.2 percentage of points, though it continues to have the highest market share with 62.12 percent share. January mark the first month that Internet Explore 8 was the most popular version of Internet Explorer. It had a market share of 22.37 percent, version 6 had a market share 20 percent and version 7 had market share of 14.53.

Google Increased US Search Share In December

White Fir Design — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:24 +0000

According to Nielsen’s December data Google share of US searches was 67.3 percent, an increase of 1.9 percent from the previous month. Yahoo’s share dropped .9 percent to 14.4 percent and Bing’s share dropped .8 percent to 9.9 percent. Nielsen also reported that there were 9.9 billion searches performed during the month.

Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Pact

White Fir Design — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:17:30 +0000

Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their agreement that will have Microsoft provide the search results and advertising for Yahoo Search. The definitive agreement was originally scheduled to be completed in late October and was delayed while details were worked out. The pact will still need to receive regulatory approval before it can begin which the companies said that they hope will occur in early 2010.

Yahoo and Microsoft Delay Finalizing Search Pact

White Fir Design — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:07:55 +0000

Yahoo and Microsoft have delayed finalization of their agreement that would have Microsoft provide the search results and advertising for Yahoo Search. When the deal was announced in July, the two companies agreed to reach definitive agreement by October 27, 2009. Microsoft said there are some “issues that need some additional clarity and definitive details” before the agreement can be finalized and that the two companies have agreed extend the deadline to finalize deal. The pact will still need to receive regulatory approval before it can begin.

Bing Adding Twitter and Facebook Posts to Search Results

White Fir Design — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:16:04 +0000

Microsoft announced today that they would be integrating Twitter tweets and Facebook status updates into Bing’s search results. Tweets can be searched from the beta of Bing Twitter search at http://www.bing.com/twitter. Microsoft made no mention of whether or when tweets will be integrated in the standard search results. In July, Bing added tweets from a limited group of high profile individuals to some search queries related to those individuals. Facebook status updates are to be integrated into search results at an unspecified later date. There have rumors that Google has been in discussions with Twitter and Fackbook integrating postings from their services into Google’s search.

August U.S. Search Share Results

White Fir Design — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:25:39 +0000

Nielsen Online released its rankings of U.S. search share for August, with overall search increasing 49.7 percent year over year to 10.8 billion searches. Google had a year over year increase of 61.3 percent and received 64.6 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 32.3 percent and received 16.0 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year increase of 50 percent and received 10.7 percent of searches.

July U.S. Search Share Results

White Fir Design — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:21:17 +0000

Nielsen Online yesterday its rankings of U.S. search share for July, with overall search increasing 31.4 percent year over year to 10.5 billion searches. Google had a year over year increase of 41.4 percent and received 64.8 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 24 percent and received 17.1 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year decrease of .5 percent and received 9.0 percent of searches.

Google’s U.S. Search Share Reaches New High and Microsoft Reaches 2 Year Low in June

White Fir Design — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:15:25 +0000

Nielsen Online yesterday its rankings of U.S. search share for June, with overall search increasing 27.0 percent year over year to 10 billion searches. Google had a year over year increase of 42.1 percent and received 66.1 percent of searches. Google’s had it highest percentage of searches ever, surpassing March of this year when it received 64.2 percent. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 24 percent and received 16.2 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year decrease of 20.7 percent and received 8.8 percent of searches. Microsoft’s percentage of searches was it lowest in the last two years despite the launch of the rebranding of their search engine as Bing at the beginning of the month.

Yahoo and Microsoft Reach Search and Ad Deal

White Fir Design — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:54:06 +0000

Microsoft and Yahoo today announced they had reached a deal to form a search and advertising partnership. Under the partnership, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s AdCenter search advertising service will provide search ads to Yahoo Search for 10 years. The deal increases the reach of Microsoft search engine and search advertising service. Nielsen Online reported that in May Microsoft had 9.4 percent of U.S. searches and Yahoo had 17.2 percent of searches. While larger, the combined percentage is only 26.6 which is not even half of Google’s 63.2 percentage for the month. The companies indicated that they are “hopeful” that the deal will close, after possible regulatory review, in early 2010. Officials from the companies told CNET News that they expect “integrating Bing’s results into Yahoo in the U.S. will take several months” and that moving to AdCenter “could take a year”. The companies expect that full integration would occur within 24 months. The deal did not include a merger of the two companies display advertising businesses. The deal follows on an of talks about some type of agreement between the two companies that began with a hostile takeover offer by Microsoft early last year.

Microsoft Claims Increase In Users Following Bing Launch

White Fir Design — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:03:21 +0000

Microsoft has reported that they saw an 8 percent increase in unique users for their search engine during the month of June. At the beginning of the month Microsoft launched an update of the search engine and rebranded it as Bing. Microsoft also reported that in their own polling the number of people “likely to recommend” their search engine double during the month. The increase is not unexpected due the press coverage of the rebranding and the advertising campaign for the search engine that also began at the begging of the month. In the past Microsoft has made similar increases, but has been unable to sustain them.

May U.S. Search Share Results

White Fir Design — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:25:53 +0000

Nielsen Online has released its rankings of U.S. search share for May (PDF). Overall search increased 20.3 percent year over year to 9.4 billion searches. Google had year over year increase of 28.2 percent and received 63.2 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 22.3 percent and received 17.2 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year decrease of 14.6 percent and received 9.4 percent of searches.

Bing Launch Increases Microsoft’s Search Activity

White Fir Design — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:38:35 +0000

Comscore today released preliminary data that shows that Microsoft’s search activity in the United Sates has increased following the release of Bing. From June 2 to June 6 Microsoft’s share of search was 11.1 percent up 2 percentage points from May 26 to May 30, according to Comscore. During the same periods the amount the average daily amount of searchers who used Bing increased 1.7 percentage points to 15.5 percent. Bing started to become available on June 1 and officially launched on June 3. Comscore also indicated that the increase “held relatively steady” during the measured period. The gains are not unexpected, due to attention the launch has received and Microsoft’s advertising campaign.