Bing Gains in October, Yahoo! Falls, Google Leads
Microsoft's relatively new "decision making engine" Bing gained market share last month, recovering slightly from the dip the service experienced in September.
Bing has been growing consistently with a month over month increase in market share since it launched in May of this year. However in September, the Microsoft-owned search engine dropped, falling by 1.1 percent and bringing its total market share down to 8.51 percent from 9.64 percent.
StatCounter reports that Bing rose slightly in October, taking 8.86 percent, a figure that's still under its peak of 9.64 percent in August.
Meanwhile, Yahoo! continues to lose market share, falling down to 8.91 percent in October (from 9.4 percent in September and 10.5 percent in August). Predictably, search giant Google is the beneficiary with the Mountain View-based company taking 80.39 percent of the U.S. market. According to StatCounter, this is Google's largest share since November '08.
I just like it because its simplicity, which makes it load faster.
i hate its layout and most of the time you don't get as good results as Google..
Bing brought me to malaware
Unfortunately that works great for MS.
People still use Yahoo search?
Yahoo now: Um, we may have jumped the gun a little...
That percentage is so high thanks to that and even then its not actually high at all.
Google for me
Rather than run away from the reputation as a porn surfer, which we all know is disingenuous anyway, they may as well keep building on it and keep improving the porn searching.
Porn is one of those things that no one else is supposed to like, but, it's somehow OK if you watch it. The hypocrisy is annoying, and I'm just not believing that Microsoft never put any thought into how well Bing searched for porn. Of course they did, it's only sensible since they care about increase share, and it's a large market. They'd be negligent to dismiss it.
If someone comes out with a browser named "Porn Surfer", they'd get a quick jump in market share. Internet Explorer? Dull and prosaic. Firefox? Stupid. Opera? What's the connection? Safari? Same. Chrome? Why name it out of an ugly, shiny metal that tasteless people are attracted to?
Microsoft Porn Surfer. It's got a nice ring to it. Tie it into Bing, and make Bing ask questions like "The search results have returned some listings that are not adult material. Do you still want to view them?". And issue warnings when porn material is rated dull by other viewers, etc...
It's worth a shot.
When is the EU going to say that Google holds a search monpoly and force them to have a ballot screen including Bing, Yahoo, etc....
Search engine usage matters far more than browser usage. It's advertising dollars.
So they actually are paying people to use their search engine?
same thing can be said about FireFox and Chrome, what do you expect?! do you really expect Microsoft/Google makes Google/Bing its default search provider?!
+1 for that. Images and video are way easier to search through using Bing.
Isn't Yahoo! search suppose to be turning into Bing search anyway?