Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says

Sep 14, 2009 at 7:43pm ET by Matt McGee

The latest search engine stats from Nielsen bring good news for Bing, which now has more than 10% market share for the first time in ... well, longer than I can remember. Nielsen says Bing captured 10.7% of all searches in August, up from 9.0% in July. Based on that jump, Nielsen says Bing is the fastest growing search provide in its Top 10. Google remains a distant number one with almost 65% market share in Nielsen's survey. Nielsen's numbers are included below. Top 10 Search Providers for August 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) +------------------------------+-------------+----------+- [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Popularity

Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old

Jun 17, 2009 at 12:49pm ET by Danny Sullivan

More early stats are coming in on how searchers are reacting to the Bing launch. comScore shows Microsoft's Bing search engine continuing to make gains, but Compete shows things remain largely the same. From comScore, the latest stats show that "searcher penetration" has climbed from 13.7% in the week before it launched, to 15.8% during the launch week to 16.7% for the week after launch. The share of search results pages have risen from 9.1% to 12.1% over the same period. From the comScore press release: Work Week 5/25/09-5/29/09 6/1/09-6/5/09 6/8/09-6/12/09 Searcher [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Compete, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore, Top News

Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly

Jun 5, 2009 at 3:42pm ET by Greg Sterling

We saw the same headline, based on data issued by StatCounter from Thursday. These data reportedly show that yesterday the share of searches went like this: Google: 71.47 percent Bing: 16.28 percent Yahoo: 10.22 percent On a global basis the company said it saw a similar trend: Google: 87.62 percent Bing: 5.62 percent Yahoo: 5.13 percent To get a reality check on these numbers and discover whether Bing had in fact surpassed Yahoo we reached out to Hitwise, Nielsen, comScore and Compete. We're still waiting to get data or updates from these sources. But the charts and [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Compete, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore, Top News, Yahoo: Search

Hulu Traffic Controversy Pits comScore Against Nielsen

May 15, 2009 at 11:13am ET by Greg Sterling

In the world of competition between and among websites, search engines and online publishers there is also the "behind the scenes" competition between Nielsen and comScore. Both want to be the source of record for traffic data and both are occasionally the subject of controversy. There was the incident early in 2008 where comScore put out a report that Google's paid clicks were down, sending Google shares down. But when Google announced a very strong Q1, comScore shares then took a hit and the company had to go into damage control mode. More recently Nielsen reported that despite Twitter's [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Video Search Engines, Stats: General, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Size, Stats: comScore

Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized

Jan 26, 2009 at 2:49pm ET by Danny Sullivan

With 2008 behind us, I wanted to look back and plot how search engine market share changed over the year in the United States. No surprises here. Pick your numbers, Google grew and grew. Yahoo and Microsoft dropped by lately have leveled off. Before we do the pretty pictures, I'll repeat my standing philosophy about search market share figures: Avoid drawing conclusions based on month-to-month comparisons. Lots of things can cause one month’s figures to be incomparable to another month. It’s better to see the trend across multiple months in a row. Avoid drawing conclusions b [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Stats: Compete, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore, Top News

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