Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing Search Engine Gains Ground

Release Date 14 Apr, 2011 in InvestorGuide

 
   

Google Has Largest Share of US Searches as Microsoft Gains, Yahoo Slips

Bloomberg - Brian Womack - 14 Apr, 2011
Google Inc. signage is displayed at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard ...

Google Still Pulling Ahead in Search, According to New comScore Numbers

Wired News (blog) - Ryan Singel - 14 Apr, 2011
Google's still sitting pretty at the top of the US search heap, handling nearly two-thirds of all domestic searches, according to March data from comScore that contradicts a recent report showing Bing closing in on the search giant. ...

ComScore: Google Sites Lead Explicit Core Search

Barron's (blog) - Miriam Gottfried - 14 Apr, 2011
Google (GOOG) led the US explicit core search market in March with 65.7% market share, according to data released by comScore. The search giant's market share represents a 0.3% gain over February. Google's performance was followed ...

Google to go plus-one better than Facebook

Financial Times - Richard Waters - 14 Apr, 2011
Five years ago, Yahoo! had a plan for beating Google at its own game. It would encourage members of its huge online audience to vote for web pages they liked by “tagging” them. Out of this outpouring would come a more personal and ...

Google's acquisition of ITA Software has closed

CNET (blog) - Caroline McCarthy - 14 Apr, 2011
In what was a much more expedient process than many believed, Google's controversial plan to acquire travel search company ITA Software for $700 million is a done deal. After posting a blog entry on Friday that the deal was close ...

Google-ITA deal may herald more airfare tie-ups

MarketWatch - Christopher Hinton - 14 Apr, 2011
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) " Companies that build search engines for gathering and publishing airfare data online could see a surge of investment and merger activity now that Google Inc. has overcome antitrust concerns in ...

Google Extends Lead In Search As AOL Creeps Up In Online Video

Forbes (blog) - ‎Apr 13, 2011‎
By AGUSTINO FONTEVECCHIA Online search and video viewing rankings came out this week with Google firmly in control of both markets, according to research by comScore. Google dominated the US online search market share with 65.7% of all queries, ...

Bing Gains US Internet Search Share For 8th Straight Month

Forbes (blog) - Eric Savitz - ‎Apr 13, 2011‎
Inch-by-inch, Microsoft (MSFT) Bing continues to make incremental progress in the US Internet search market. In February, according to the latest data from ComScore, Bing held 13.94% of the market, up from 13.64% in January. ...

Regulatory worries could put chill on Google acquisitions

Vancouver Sun - Rob Cox - ‎Apr 13, 2011‎
Google on Sunday honoured the 119th anniversary of the ice cream sundae - but the doodle quickly sparked speculation that the search giant's code-named "Ice Cream" operating system may be released ...

Who will be Google's +1 at the social?

Mail & Guardian Online - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Google is not used to being last in line. For over a decade it has been the darling of both the tech world and the stock markets, raking in both users and profits in record quantities. But in the last five years the gravity of the online market has ...

Bing tipped to overtake Google in 2012

Sydney Morning Herald - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft Bing has been tipped to beat Google as the top search engine in 2012. Photo: AP Google might still be the leading search engine in the US by a large margin, but over the last six months, searches powered by Microsoft Bing are increasing at an ...

Bing had 30 percent of searches in March (LA Times)

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft's Bing captured 30 percent of US Web searches in March, elbowing Google a little bit out of the way, the Los Angeles Times reports. In March, Bing accounted for 30.01% of the search market, while Google " still far and away the leader " took ...

Microsoft's Bing 'gains' on Google in US; barely on radar in NZ

National Business Review - Michael Gregg - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
So much for middle New Zealand. What about the early-adopters at Geekzone? No joy for Bing there, either. Microsoft NZ 'technology evangelist' Nathan Mercer commented that Bing NZ was still in beta, and still being optimised. Microsoft's search engine ...

Microsoft's Bing took a 30% share of US Web search market in March

Los Angeles Times - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Bing, last month, elbowed its way to a 30% share of the US Web search market, stealing a bit of ground from Google. In March, Bing accounted for 30.01% of the search market, while Google -- still far and away the leader -- took up 64.42% of the market, ...

Google quiz includes a helpful tool

Fortune - Seth Weintraub - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
The introduction of the Google game also adds a search tool to the Googler's arsenal. Yesterday, Google (GOOG) introduced "A Google A Day" "a game that produces a question a day and encourages users to solve the puzzle using Google's search engine. ...

Bing scores 30 percent of all searches in US

CNET - Lance Whitney - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft's Bing captured 30 percent of all searches run in the US last month, market researcher Experian Hitwise said yesterday. Looking at the US search engine market in March, Experian Hitwise found that the number of searches at ...

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TIME - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has hit a milestone in its slow search ascent, with Bing powering 30 percent of searches in the United States. That's only if you include both Bing and Yahoo, which is powered by Microsoft's search engine. Separately, Bing is still in third ...

Report: Bing comprised 30% of Web searches in March

USA Today - Brett Molina - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft's Bing powered 30% of Internet searches during the month of March, says a report from online research firm Experian Hitwise. Breaking down Bing's results further, just over 15% of that came from Yahoo! ...

Gadgetwise: Google's Personalized Search

New York Times (blog) - Claire Cain Miller - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Last week, I typed “food in Boston” into Google, hoping to find restaurant recommendations for a coming trip. I glanced at a few of the results " from Citysearch, Boston.com and Google Places " without seeing anything worth ...

Microsoft's Bing numbers are up

Inquirer - Spencer Dalziel - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
US search market data for February and March 2011 from numbers house Experian Hitwise shows that the Microsoft's Bing and Bing-powered Yahoo Search have gained more traffic. Google, on the other hand, has lost search traffic over the ...

Can Bing ride IE and WinPho to Google triumph?

Register - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Two years ago, after pouring billions of dollars into a new search engine and advertising platform, Microsoft took Bing to market. In two years, Bing has gone from an eight per cent market share - courtesy of predecessor, Microsoft Live Search - to 13 ...

Bing Director: Google Is Teaching Users Bad Habits

Huffington Post - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
When it comes to getting the most out of search, Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft's search engine Bing, says users can be their own worst enemies. Weitz blamed Google for teaching people bad search habits that not only produce poor results -- search ...

Bing Plus Yahoo Now Equals Yahoo's Market Share In 2005 (MSFT, GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Bing now powers 30% of all searches in the US, according to March statistics released today by Experian Hitwise. Direct use of Bing was up 6% from February, and Yahoo Search -- powered by Bing -- was up 5%. Google searches were down 3% from last month, ...

Firm: Bing-powered searches hit 30% of US market

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Web searches powered by Microsoft's Bing hit 30 percent of the US market in March, according to analysis firm Experian Hitwise. It's the first time Microsoft has captured that much of the search world. Today, Experian said Google accounted for 64.42 ...

Microsoft Tests New Bing Business Portal

PCWorld - Juan Carlos Perez - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Microsoft has upgraded and renamed its Bing search engine's directory of local businesses, adding capabilities for owners to create, claim and manage their listings, as well as promote special deals, the company said ...

Bing for iPad

PC Magazine - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Skimmable daily information like weather, news, and traffic. Voice search. Pleasant visual design. Great use of swipe multitouch interface. No street view in maps. Trends info limited to ten stories per day. Bing's iPad app goes far beyond its bigger ...

Search engines tap social media to tailor results

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎Apr 10, 2011‎
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, is looking to users to help sort through the Web's information and identify the best links by "slashing" them. Search online for how to respond to a baby's high fever and the results can be a mixed bag, from a primer on ...

Google Beats Bing in Q1, Game Not Over " Facebook!

Forbes (blog) - Quentin Hardy - ‎Apr 10, 2011‎
A report on search advertising in the first quarter of 2011 by Efficient Frontier, an online advertising analysis and consulting firm, shows that Google is still overwhelmingly dominant in the amount of money it gets from search ...

Search Party

Times of India - Savio D'Souza - ‎Apr 9, 2011‎
The Good Book exhorts 'Seek and ye shall find' . Indeed, there is no greater truism when it comes to the internet. Only, it pays to have access to the right resource when scouring the World Wide Web. Plebes would automatically resort to Google"and ...

Spotted - New Google Video Search Results Preview Feature

ReelSEO Videos - ‎Apr 8, 2011‎
Remember when you could watch videos within search results. I think Google Video search is bringing back the on-page preview / viewing functionality... Here's a screen-capture of an interesting new beta Google Video Search Results feature that I ...

 

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