Google top U.S. search engines ranking, Bing overtook Yahoo!

Latest comScore report shows Google still led the U.S. explicit core search market in December with 65.9 percent market share (up 0.5 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.1 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 14.5 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.6 percent. Yes, Microsoft is now second, overtaking Yahoo! along the way.

comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report (December 2011 vs. November 2011)

Core Search Entity	Explicit Core Search Share (%)
	Nov-11	Dec-11	Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
Google Sites	65.4%	65.9%	0.5
Microsoft Sites	15.0%	15.1%	0.1
Yahoo! Sites	15.1%	14.5%	-0.6
AOL Network	2.9%	2.9%	0.0
AOL, Inc.	1.6%	1.6%	0.0

Bing Gets More Personal With Adaptive Search

Bing Search Engine showing Singapore Flyer as background

Today's Bing Search Engine is showing the Singapore Flyer as its background. NICE!

Singapore Flyer

Bing catching up with Yahoo but still third behind

According to latest comScore figures, Microsoft search engine Bing gained grounds in the area of Search, not at the expense of Google but rather, on Yahoo!.

Explicit search, June 2011 (doesn’t include image/contextual/Google Instant)

• Google: 65.5% (essentially unchanged from May)
• Yahoo: 15.9% (essentially unchanged)
• Bing: 14.4% (up from 14.1% in May)

Core search, June 2011

• Google: 64.5% (up from 63.3% in May)
• Yahoo: 17.5% (down from 19.6% in May)
• Bing: 14.1% (up from 13.1% in May)

» Bing Hits All-Time High Market Share, But Isn’t Taking It From Google | Search Engine Land

Introducing schema.org: Google, Bing, Yahoo! come together to standardize common web tags for Search

The three web giants - Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo! on Thursday launched schema.org, a collection of schemas, or HTML tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. The site aims to be a one stop resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages.

Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web [via]

Bing enhances its social search, adding more Facebook 'Likes' to search results

Microsoft announced on its bing blog on Monday expanded its use of Facebook within its Bing search engine, adding "likes" and recommendations from friends and strangers into search results.

Watch the following videos for a snapshot on how the new search works.

<br /> <a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&amp;vid=243216f7-9941-4f48-a2d0-2065e06a47b5&amp;src=SLPl:embed::uuids&amp;fg=sharenoembed" target="_new" title="Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing">Video: Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing</a>

<br /> <a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&amp;vid=d4847c17-86be-449f-89da-bc5ad973d7ce&amp;src=SLPl:embed::uuids&amp;fg=sharenoembed" target="_new" title="Bing Puts User Control at the Center of Search Experience">Video: Bing Puts User Control at the Center of Search Experience</a>

<br /> <a friend="" href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&amp;vid=08b7f661-fc34-4167-996a-7a47e47a5f0c&amp;src=SLPl:embed::uuids&amp;fg=sharenoembed" target="_new" title="Bing Brings ">Video: Bing Brings "Friend Effect" to Search</a>

Facebook Friends Now Fueling Faster Decisions on Bing [via]

Stephen Colbert poked fun on Google and Bing copying of search result drama

Few days back, Google claimed that Microsoft Bing copied Google search results. Late last year, Google had run a sting operation that it said proved Bing had been watching what people searched for on Google, selected on the sites from Google’s results, then used that information to improve Bing’s own search listings.

However, Bing denied this. Microsoft's Bing Team then hit back at Google over accusations that it stole Google search results for its Bing search engine, accusing Google of engaging in a honeypot attack and going after the Bing because it was worried about its growth. Microsoft reiterated that they do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.

Stephen Colbert, an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host, the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, poked fun at the drama this week. Watch him on the video below:

Microsoft Bing's reply on Google's claim of possible copying of Search Results

Microsoft's Bing Team hit back at Google over accusations that it stole Google search results for its Bing search engine, accusing Google of engaging in a honeypot attack and going after the Bing because it was worried about its growth.

We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.

Follow this link for the complete reply from the Bing Team.

Is Microsoft Bing copying Google search results?

Danny Sullivan wrote a blog post on Google's claims that Bing copies Google search results.

Late last year, Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results [via]

Bing Overtakes Yahoo as Number Two Search Engine in U.S.

For the first time, Microsoft's Bing has surpassed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the U.S., according to Tuesday data from Nielsen, while Google remains the number one in U.S.

Google share is now 65.1 percent, Bing's 13.9 percent and Yahoo's 13.1 percent.

Bing Overtakes Yahoo as Number Two Search Engine, Nielsen Says [via]

Google Search background wallpaper made available today

It is now official - Changing of Google Search background wallpaper. You should now find "Change background image" at the bottom left corner of the main search page.

Decision whether to change or not to change is entirely up to you. I must admit that the many of the images provided by Google are amazingly beautiful but once changed, Google Search really looks very much like Microsoft's Bing. Thank god that it is possible to revert back to the simple Google layout.

Google's Background Search Image Looks Like Bing

Google has been feeling some heat in the search space thanks to Microsoft's Bing and has begun adjusting certain aspects of its service accordingly. This new search image customization feature is yet to be rolled out to all.

Google's new customizable layout

Microsoft Bing layout

Google's sidebar

Google's latest move is to allow users the option to change the background of its search engine. Google has already changed quite a fair bit of their search result page close to Bing with their new sidebar.

Freeze frame! [via]

Bing shares on search market is up again

The latest data from comScore on the U.S. search market came out today and it shows Microsoft's search engine Bing continued slow but steady crawl to number two, rising from 11.3 to 11.5 percent of the search market. This is at the expense of Yahoo search engine. Yahoo fell from 17.0 to 16.8 percent from January to February. Meanwhile, Google, managed a slight increase for the month of February, from 65.4 to 65.5 percent of the U.S. search market.

February Search Results Are In: Bing Is Up Again, Yahoo Is Down Again [via]

Comparing Google Translate and Bing Translate

Google Translate recently launched a new feature to show translated sentences in tooltip on mouse hover. Do take note Translation MUST be checked (not default) to be able to see the translation in tooltip.


Microsoft recently newly revamped search engine Bing also came out with their very own translation service - Bing Translator. This new translator come with a cool side-by-side feature to compare original and translated webpages. Mouse hover on a sentence will allow you see one-to-one comparison. This is pretty cool.

Google Translator
http://translate.google.com/

Bing Translator
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/

Microsoft Bing is now 2nd overtaking Yahoo!

Microsoft new searching engine codenamed Bing has overtaken Yahoo! to become the second most used search engine in the United States, only after Google.

One June 5, a statistical report released by StatCounter Global Stats revealed Bing accounted for 5.62 per cent of all worldwide searches, compared to Yahoo!'s 5.13 per cent. Search engine king Google accounted for a monopolistic 87.62 per cent.

Top 5 Search Engines in the United States from 29 May to 4 Jun 09 [via]

Microsoft Bing Search - Product Tour of Bing.com

Bing Goes Live

Bing Goes Live—Here's What You Can Do With It [via]

Microsoft's new search engine is named Bing

It's official: Microsoft's new search engine is named Bing [via]