Bing Cuts Itself a 10% Slice of the Search Pie
Bing has been gaining in popularity since it launched just before the summer and while Microsoft's share of the search market has slowly been creeping upward, it's finally hit a milestone of 10 percent.
CNet News cites a Nielson report released Monday that puts 10 percent of the search market in the bucket marked Bing. Of course, Google is still the king of the castle with 64 percent (an increase of 2.6 percent over July) and Yahoo! comes second with 16 percent (a decrease of 4.2 percent). However, Bing searches for August clocked in with 1.1 billion for the month of August, an increase of 22.1 percent over July, giving Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search market.
CNet reports that similar studies from the likes of ComScore also show an increase in Bing searches. Microsoft this week launched visual search for Bing, which shows users their search results in the form of a deck of pictures as opposed to just a page of hyperlinks.
Click here to see the full results of the Nielson report.

10% market share? What live did have then? I mean, all Windows PCs that got Ie7 installed came with Live search as default search engine.
my 2 cents.
Though the company behind bing is as a monopolist as google is, so,
I find Google does a good job, and I have no complaints!
They require absolutely zero on money, searches are fairly accurate, and my page is not bloated with ads.
I find absolutely no reason to go over to Bling.
I tried it, and probably that's where they get their 10%, that many want to see.
But my bet is before next month, most users will return to google, unless like mentioned above, they absolutely don't know how to change their default search engine!
By the way, think that 8% of that might be searching for pornography, since Bing's has "excellent" video search capabilities.
Even if IE8 install makes the default Bing, something else being installed after would be bound to make it either yahoo or google without little warning. Just like the infamous FOH (Fold at Home)that's slipstreamed into the AMD Catalyst install.
I'm still gonna use it for some time to be sure, but I guess I'm not going to leave Google.
It's true that if you had google set in IE7, IE8 will let you keep that setting if you skip past their configure, or go through the wizard.
But, if you upgrade from ie6, it automatically uses bing unless you choose another engine.
If you have ie7, chances are, you upgraded from ie6. At that time, ie7 sets the default to live search, unless you choose another engine. And if you now upgrade to ie8, it will choose bing.
So, bottom line, if you upgrade and don't know how to change it, you will be using bing. Same goes for firefox and google. At some point you would have had to choose another engine to not get the browser default. And a lot of people don't know how, or even that you can.
-Dan
Nothing...well...a different search engine algorithm?
Google gets me what I need, and is cut and dry.
If Bing had been at all a significant improvement results-wise, I'd choose it.
Sorry MS. Your best effort wasn't good enough.
Just proves that someone as tech-savvy as I can switch Opera, Firefox and IE8's default and only search engine to Bing and be happy about it.
Globally Bing has 3.52%...
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4
I've used Bing as a substitute from time to time and it has found newer more useful results.
Like a couple weeks ago when I purchased DGL-4500. When I typed in "DGL-4500" it brought up an option of using "Cashback". 5 vendors were in the "Cashback" : Newegg, TigerDirect, Amazon, and 2 others. It showed me how much they were selling it for and if they were offering free shipping on the item. At the same time it tells me how much cash back Bing will give me to my Paypal account for going through certain vendors. At that particular time Bing was offering 6% cash back for total purchase from Newegg and they were already offering free shipping so I went ahead purchased it through Newegg. TigerDirect actually had the item cheaper but was going to charge me $10 for shipping and I was going to only get 3% cash back.
As far as I know Bing is the only search engine that has the ability to not only compare prices of a product with vendors but also give you shipping prices and cash back. Let's see Google or Yahoo do that.
And yes it works. I have already recieved $52 dollars "Cashback" from Bing over the past 2 months.