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VIRTUALISATION Bing stops the rot? | Bing stops the rot? |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 03 November 2009 | |
  
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"Bing's market share has stabilised after falling since mid August," StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen. But Yahoo! - the other half of the so-called MicroHoo partnership - saw its share drop for the fourth consecutive month to 8.91%. "A worrying trend for Microsoft is that the combined Bing and Yahoo! market share has seen a steady decline from 20.36% in July to 17.77% in October," said Cullen. StatCounter's global figures won't go down so well at Microsoft, as they show Bing managing an even smaller increase from 3.25% to 3.31%. Yahoo!'s numbers went from 4.37% in September to 4.1% in October. That means the combined Bing/Yahoo! share slipped from 7.62% to 7.41%. Google was the main beneficiary both in the US (up from 80.08% to 80.39%) and worldwide (up from 90.54% to 90.81%). StatCounter isn't the only source of data showing a slight recovery for Bing with Yahoo continuing to decline. Net Application's October 2009 worldwide Market Share report for search engines puts Google on 84.53% (up 1.4 points on September), Yahoo! on 6.68% (down 0.16), Bing on 3.49% (up 0.1) and Baidu on 3.03% (down 1.35). No other search engine achieved a 1% share. If you look at a graph of StatCounter's worldwide figures from mid-2008 to the present, the overall impression is of a slowly declining Yahoo! transferring share to Google, MSN and Windows Live folding into Bing, and the Others category chugging steadily along. |
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