Google’s Search Market Share Falling
Microsoft’s Bing continues to gain search market share – largely at Google’s expense. As can be seen from the StatCounter graph, Google’s market share dropped quite noticeably in early June when Bing had just come out, while Yahoo’s search market share was largely unfazed. It’s a bit hard to see on the graph, however if you copy the graph into an image editing program and drawing a straight horizontal line under the lowest point on June 8th, you can see that Bing has gained significant search market share since the initial hype surrounding it’s release faded, and once again, it seems that Google has been the one from whom most of the search market share has been leeched. Bing has displaced Yahoo to become #2 in search market share — at least temporarily. Most of us domainers, developers, and webmasters would love to see this continue — the lower Google’s market share, the less they’ll be able to monopolize the market. There is quite clearly a very strong negative correlation between Google and Bing search market share — I haven’t researched why this may be, however looking at the graph, Yahoo’s traffic seems to not matter whatsoever how Google and Bing are doing yet Bing and Google almost always perform opposite each other.
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July 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Go Bing! I don’t use it, but I am sick of Google=)
July 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I actually love Bing.com. It’s easier to type than google . The results are more relevant IMO.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Now if Microsoft comes up with a good publisher program, google will be begging for mercy,
It is all about money
July 11th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I’m sick of Google as well Troy — especially how they treat the advertisers and domain owners / webmasters who made them what they are today.
@Bullshitwebsites — I completely agree.
July 12th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Go Bing. Let’s hope Bing keep the organic search results on top of the page and be a real search engine rather than a paid directory like Google has become.
I agree with the comments above that Bing is refreshing and the results are clear, it makes you realize that the Google search output really is a bit claustrophobic.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Death to Google!
I always rank well in Yahoo and MSN doing everything I should, but Google penalizes everyone that isn’t spending $$$ on advertising. Its ridiculous. Let the merits of the site speak for itself.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Completely agree — their whole concept of Google ranking big brands better is about rewarding those spending the most money with them.