The week after Microsoft’s Bing officially launched early this month, Microsoft’s share of the search market increased by 3 percent.
And according to ComScore, an online market tracker, Bing, an update to Microsoft Live Search, provided the company with the same boost in its second week. Microsoft gained another 3 percent last week, garnering 16.7 percent of the search business, according to ComScore.
“It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week,” said Mike Hurt, ComScore senior vice president, in a statement. “The early data reflects a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.”
Today’s report from ComScore comes less than two weeks after a study from StatCounter Global Stats showed that Bing had surpassed Yahoo Inc. to become the number two search engine both in the U.S. and worldwide. StatCounter, which analyzes Web site traffic, also found that Bing grabbed some market share from rival Google Inc.
The StatCounter report is based on analysis of search engine use four days after the new search engine became available on June 1. The study found that while Google still dominates the U.S. search engine market with a 71.47% share, Bing holds 16.28% of the market and Yahoo is third at 10.22%.
Microsoft announced this week that it has added a separate domain to Bing just for pornographic images and video. The company is trying to make it easier for companies and organizations to filter explicit images out of search results.
Having the single porn domain basically means Bing is able to better categorize images and video as pornographic or not. If all of the elicit images and video are in one domain, companies and organizations can set up Bing searches so they don’t get search results from that one place.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/495253/Bing_Helps_Microsoft_Gain_Steam_in_Search_Market