Bing Slows in Race against Google - StatCounter

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Tue Sep 1, 2009 6:15am EDT 

BOSTON & DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Microsoft`sBing search market share in the US grew by just 0.23% in August to
9.64%, the slowest monthly growth rate since its launch, according to analysis
conducted by web analytics firm StatCounter. The firm`s research arm StatCounter
Global Stats also finds that Bing and Yahoo! combined declined slightly in
August to 20.14% from 20.36% in July. 

"Perhaps a little worrying for Microsoft is that when you analyse the weekly
data, Bing peaked for the week 10th - 16th August at 10.98% and has declined
since then," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. Google increased its
search market share slightly in the US in August from 77.54% to 77.83%. 

Globally Microsoft and Yahoo! combined took 8.42% of the search market in
August, a decline of 0.35% on July`s figure (8.77%). Google remains the dominant
force in the global search market with 89.57% in August (89.23% in July). 

Data is based on an analysis of 1.073 billion search engine referring clicks
(272 million from the US) which were collected in July and August from the
StatCounter network of over three million websites. 

StatCounter, which provides free website traffic analysis, is one of the largest
web analytics firms in the world monitoring in excess of ten billion pageloads
per month. 

US Search Market

                           July 2009    August 2009    
 Bing                      9.41%        9.64%          
 Yahoo!                    10.95%       10.50%         
 Bing & Yahoo! Combined    20.36%       20.14%         
 Google                    77.54%       77.83%         


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its members the chance to grow and improve their online businesses by allowing
them to monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location
of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site
plus other features. 

For information on this real-time, user-friendly and free visitor stats tool,
please visit www.statcounter.com

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