Does Google Really Need to Worry About Bing?

      by Wyatt Walter

At the end of July, a lot of blogs and news sites were quick to point out that Bing’s (collective with Yahoo) market share in the U.S. jumped by 1%. While it’s true, the Bing market share did a make a small jump from the time of its launch until now, it’s far too early to start noting any trends from the stats. For a bit of perspective, let’s take a look at this graph from Business Insider:

U.S. Market Share from Business Insider

As we can see, a gain of simply a percent can be seen as a plateau with a hopeful trend back upwards, but the Microsoft / Yahoo combined market share lost almost 10% over the last couple of years alone. Of course, time will tell on whether or not any real trends will come out of this, but it’s a bit early to start talking big about Bing..

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