Microsoft's Bing (MSFT) Gaining On Google (GOOG) And Yahoo! (YHOO)

While Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Bing has fallen back to third place behind Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) it is still gaining market share for Microsoft against from Google and Yahoo, according to the latest analysis from StatCounter Global Stats.

StatCounter analyzed search engine market share two weeks before and after the formal launch of Bing on May 28th (14th May to the 27th May and the 28th May to 10th June). For the US market it found:Google decreased from 78.68% to 77.94% (-0.74%)

Yahoo decreased from 11.46% to 10.76% (-0.7%)

Microsoft (Bing, MSN Search and Live Search) increased from 7.4% to 9% (+1.6%)"It is too early to say what the long term result will be but this is a creditable performance by Bing," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter. "It remains to be seen what happens to Bing after user curiosity and the reported $100m advertising budget runs out."

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