Bing’s search share stays steady: ComScore
ComScore, the “global leader in measuring the digital world”, released its latest data on the U.S. search market this week and it showed that in July, Bing maintained its 14.4 percent share, Yahoo’s increased somewhat by .2 percent to 16.1 percent, and Google fell .4 percent to 65.1 percent. Google clocked a total of 11.2 billion searches in July, 2 percent higher than June, Yahoo took 2.8 billion, 4 percent higher, and total...
Microsoft should keep Bing: Tim Carmody
Wired contributor Tim Carmody, in response to a piece written by Reuter’s columnist Tim Cyran last week in which he argues that Microsoft should sell Bing, provides a range of reasons to explain why Microsoft, won’t, can’t and shouldn’t unload Bing. First Carmody summarizes the argument by Cyran, and the reaction and buzz from industry insiders to his piece, which received a good deal of attention. Cyran explains that Bing...
The case for selling Bing
Reuters Breakingviews columnist Robert Cyran wrote an article this week that has received due attention from industry observers – Cyran argues that Microsoft should consider selling its search engine product Bing, because it continues to generate a large loss for the company every year, and it may do better with a different company. Microsoft believes that Bing strengthens its customer base in a wide range of its offerings,...
Microsoft Signs up iPhone 4 Users for Bing Project
Microsoft has reportedly posted thousands of jobs through a service called Gigwalk for iPhone 4 owners looking for part-time jobs, various reports say. According to reports, Microsoft is paying iPhone 4 owners who have installed Microsoft’s Photosynth app on their iPhones to take photos of places for a project for its Bing search engine. Reports say that the thousands of Gigwalk jobs, called “gigs”, are now offered by Microsoft...
Microsoft’s Bing to serve Baidu’s English-language search
Chinese search superstar Baidu has announced that it will be using Microsoft’s Bing search engine to serve English-language searches on its website. The move comes as Baidu is setting its sights on international markets and Microsoft is eager to get a share of the massive Chinese market which Google has somewhat given up on. According to Reuters, Baidu has told them that English language searches on Baidu will be redirected to Bing...
Google still King, but Bing gains ground
Search engine giant Google is still king of the search engine market, but research firm Compete released data last week showing Microsoft’s Bing has been making progress in taking away some of its market share. Compete reported that between May 2010 and May 2011, Google’s market share fell 16 percent, from 73.9 percent to 63.6 percent, while Bing’s market share went up by a whopping 75 percent, increasing from 9.7 percent to 17...