The hotly contested search market is going through change. With its recent self re-invention, Microsoft has found itself again a major player in the market.
It’s search engine, Bing, continues to grow. Bing broke the 10% barrier in November.
While Google is still growing, up to 65.6% from 65.4, it’s ceiling high market share give it short room to expand.
Bing on the other hand seems intent on grabbing fist-fulls of market share, seemingly at the expense of Yahoo, which lost 0.5% market share in November, down to 17.5%.
Bing remains the smallest of the big three, but with its lightning fast product cycle, and friendly interface, not to mention strong search results, it seems only a short time until it finds a comfortable role as the second largest.
I am in talks with Cuil, if you remember them, to get an interview about their future direction. The Cuil team is still around, and is intent on making Cuil a power player in the market. We shall see.
Data via SIA, via Imran.
Very soon Bing+Yahoo will create a strong competitor to Google.
That’s US market share, of course. The picture over here in Europe is completely different. Anyone know a reliable source of data on that?
I do believe Bing will never catch up with Google. And why do they keep renaming themselves? First, they were MSN search, then Live search, and now Bing. If this thing fails, what next?