A little more than a month ago, Microsoft officially launched Bing.com. Preliminary reports that are now being released are showing that the search engine is again continuing to climb in terms of unique visitors and total number of searches.Last week it was revealed that Bing took 8.23% of the U.S. markets web searches for the month of June, which was up from 7.81% in the month of May. And today reports are coming in that Bing has continued to grow in terms of unique visitors for the month of June.
According to Compete.com, Bing saw a total of 49.57 million unique visitors in June. Surprisingly the number trumps CNN's 28.54 million, Twitter's 23 million, and even Digg's 38.96 million. It is to no surprise that Bing is continuing to grow, given the positive press coverage it has had in the last month.
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Another interesting thing to note is that according to Compete.com's numbers, Bing is ranked #13 in the United States in terms of unique visitors. Microsoft's previous search engine, Live.com, is still sitting in the #12 position with 79.4 million unique visitors in June.
It is no doubt that Microsoft has a long road ahead if they want to give Google a tough challenge, but they are heading down the right path with Bing. As Microsoft continues to push the Bing platform, yes we said platform (More on that soon), expect to see Bing incorporated into more Microsoft products.
That's why GOOG announced OS.
That's not why. This was why:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/09/m...party-on-monday
It has nothing to do with bing advertising, bing cemented my gradual change back to google as a permanent one.
It has nothing to do with bing advertising, bing cemented my gradual change back to google as a permanent one.
Precisely. This article falsely posits that bing has gained market-share on its own merits which we all know is entirely fallacious. Then again when has MS genuinely completed in any market without using its OS dominance to give it an advantage? So these figures are actually from live.com redirection; are the editors here biased much? It seems to them ignorance of the facts really is bliss.
The only reason bing has any users at all is because of the MS tax on OEM PCs. When that monopoly gets broken they can say bye bye to all the rest of their so called bloatware.. oops.. I meant products xD.
It has nothing to do with bing advertising, bing cemented my gradual change back to google as a permanent one.
Precisely. This article falsely posits that bing has gained market-share on its own merits which we all know is entirely fallacious. Then again when has MS genuinely completed in any market without using its OS dominance to give it an advantage? So these figures are actually from live.com redirection; are the editors here biased much? It seems to them ignorance of the facts really is bliss.
The only reason bing has any users at all is because of the MS tax on OEM PCs. When that monopoly gets broken they can say bye bye to all the rest of their so called bloatware.. oops.. I meant products xD.
Yup, because all that really helped Live Search out
oh wait...
Here are the graphs that show the true story. Live.com was always bigger than CNN. So is it surprising when Live redirects to Bing that suddenly Bing is bigger than CNN? Of course not
A lot of people use Yahoo! as a homepage even though they use Google as a search engine.
Exactly! The cost of an operating system by manufacturers directly correlates to the usage of a search engine!
when all that graph is showing a number of people visiting the website is larger than the others does not make it a more popular website? I bet 90% of those visits are curiosity about the site, as was my one and only visit.
It should be reoccuring visits shown above not unique.
when all that graph is showing a number of people visiting the website is larger than the others does not make it a more popular website? I bet 90% of those visits are curiosity about the site, as was my one and only visit.
It should be reoccuring visits shown above not unique.
It shows unique visitors, and nowhere did the article state it made it a popular site.
when all that graph is showing a number of people visiting the website is larger than the others does not make it a more popular website? I bet 90% of those visits are curiosity about the site, as was my one and only visit.
It should be reoccuring visits shown above not unique.
Notice there is no data on number of searches through bing? I doubt unique visitors is directly proportional to searches...
when all that graph is showing a number of people visiting the website is larger than the others does not make it a more popular website? I bet 90% of those visits are curiosity about the site, as was my one and only visit.
It should be reoccurring visits shown above not unique.
It shows unique visitors, and nowhere did the article state it made it a popular site.
I think it is safe to say that Bing is a popular site. It has to have more visitors than neowin, which in itself is pretty popular.
http://www.crn.com/software/218102305
But it's also hard to tell from stats like these this early. Let's see if this is a spike of usage from many people just checking it out, or if it's the start of a trend.
Also anyone who installs IE8 and accepts defaults automatically gets Bing as their default search provider. Many people won't even know how to change it or even realise that there search results are provided by Bing.
I have used it to check it, and then moved back to the better search engine.
That's wrong. The IE8 installer does not alter the existing search engine provider when upgrading from IE7.
Sorry I meant IE7 not IE8 in the first comment.
Sorry I meant IE7 not IE8 in the first comment.
No, the browser makers chose Google because Google pays them per search run from their browsers address bar and etc. That's why Opera makes money still while the browser is now free.
I think you meant "Sorry, I was wrong".
Neither IE7 or IE8 change your default search engine settings.
You failed miserably.
Focus on this (doesn't know the concept of paying) and all the things wrong with that statement and try again.
Are you that disparate to hang onto a pretty iffy argument? You obviously seem to have a dislike of Bing, or else you wouldn't be deriding Bing so much as a search engine that does not have much if any popularity.
These browsers may have put Google by default, possibly because the programmers who made those browsers are used to Google, and perhaps since Google is already the popular choice, they put it as the default because many people already do use it. You know, the same way that businesses often support the most popular credit card companies? It's not necessarily because those credit card companies are the best, but because they're already used by more people.
Microsoft can buy practically anything if they need to. They certainly can buy money, and pay the EU's extortion fines. They're just not that desperate to bother with it yet.
Hotmail is still hosted at live.com so that's where all the visits come from. You should compare bing.com to search.live.com.
I'd like to see what people come up with if the July numbers show it grew yet again. I mean, if the argument is that people are just going there to "try it out" then how long are they "trying it out for?" It seems people who didn't like it switched right away, not after a week, or after a month.
Just curious, can you tell me these search queries you looked up? I mean I'd at least expect Bing to get the results on the first page, if not the next few pages.
That doesn't make sense. As soon as Bing went public, Live.com redirected to Bing.
Nothing-Nothing-Nothing-Nothing-Nothing-Nothing-BING!
I know it's lame.....
All Google has to do is add pron video previews like Bing has and it will be all over for Bing.
The name still sucks. Bing it and decide. Or, just Google it. Having actually used the Bing for about a week as a default on Firefox. Searching for "Windows Beta Screenshots" gave me 6 links on page one about Mac OS X Leopard Beta's brand new Quicklook feature. What? I even gave them the upper-hand by searching for a Windows thing. The rest of the results were mixed. Usually there was one good result and the rest wasn't relevant. Using Bing Travel was a nightmare. A flight to San Francisco cost $478 through the lowest-price thing - but clicking a link to a sponsor brought me down to $407.
The point? It's 2nd place. It's not Google. I won't be Binging anything and I don't expect the public to accept "binging" as the new "googling". Maybe in 10 years, but not anytime soon.
But I sure hope it gives Google a run for their money. Competition is always good. But honestly, Micorosft needs to do something right for a change. Windows 7 was that first step, this seems to be going back and saying "Oh, we do search too! And Just about every other computer product!".
/rant
I have no clue how you could get 6 links about Quicklook.
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