Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Sep 2009 19:21 UTC
Microsoft "Microsoft's search engine, Bing, was used in 10.7 percent of U.S. online searches in August, according to a new report by research firm Nielsen. That placed it third in the rankings behind Yahoo with 16 percent and Google with 64.6 percent. Microsoft’s month-over-month gain of 22.1 percent in market share suggests that the search engine may have legs even after Microsoft’s supporting ad campaign, estimated at costing between $80 million to $100 million, runs its course."
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Comment by satan666
by satan666 on Wed 16th Sep 2009 19:47 UTC
satan666
Member since:
2008-04-18

OK, so bing is eating yahoo's market share and google grows stronger meanwhile, according to the article. Considering that bing will soon be in the same boat with yahoo, that's like getting 20 dollars from the left pocket and putting them in the right pocket. Now the right pocket's content grew tremendously. And they spend 100 million dollars for this? Wow, now it makes sense.

RE: Comment by satan666
by Kroc on Thu 17th Sep 2009 08:42 in reply to "Comment by satan666"
Kroc Member since:
2005-11-10

They're *very successful* at failing.

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RE: Comment by satan666
by kolmyo on Thu 17th Sep 2009 09:05 in reply to "Comment by satan666"
kolmyo Member since:
2005-07-11

I guess Bing is mostly eating the market share of MSN Search, and that's more like taking 5 bucks from your pocket, straightening it, and putting it back. Nothing but extra work.

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