Clickz’s Jack Marshall brings us the report that Bing has gone over the 10% share mark in the US - a truly remarkable shift. The data is from Nielsen and shows that Bing grew at a rate of over 22% in August against Google’s 2.9% growth. Yahoo meanwhile declined at a rate of -4.2%. Most of Bing’s share seems to have come from Comcast, however.
The list of ‘growers’ makes interesting reading too placing Google in 5th place:
- Bing 22.1%
- Local.com 2.9%
- Ask.com 2.9%
- Yellow Pages 2.7%
- Google 2.6%
- AOL 1.8%
- My Web 0.5%
- NexTag 0.4
- Yahoo -4.2%
- Comcast -21.6%
One thing to note is that even though the Bing algorithm operates in the UK and US - and it isn’t present through much of the rest of the world. If this growth were to be related to the success of the algorithm - rather than the publicity story surround the deal with Yahoo - then Microsoft is headed for an interesting couple of years!
September 15th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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