Is Bing Overtaking Google?

Do you know that the number of US searches conducted on Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has risen 7% in the past four weeks, while Google fell 1%, according to new research from Hitwise. Does that mean Google is dropping down when compared with Bing???

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers

Domain September 2009 October 2009 Month-over-month percent change

www.google.com 71.08% 70.60% -1%

search.yahoo.com 16.38% 16.14% -1%

www.bing.com* 8.96% 9.57% 7%

www.ask.com 2.56% 2.62% 2%

Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Oct. 31, 2009, and Oct. 3, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.

*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.

Source: Experian Hitwise

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