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Google's respect for Microsoft Bing surfaces in Google Explore Search
Source: Clint Boulton at eWeek.com
June 22, 2009
So I read with amusement the New York Post's account that Google fears Bing. Sure, Bing is tearing it up in the early run, getting lots of searchers curious about the hullabaloo. People want to see how Microsoft is going to compete with Google in search.
ComScore says Microsoft's average daily penetration among U.S. searchers reached 16.7 percent during the work week of June 8 to 12, up 3 percentage points from the May 25 to 29 work week prior to Bing's introduction. Moreover, Microsoft's share of search result pages in the United States, a proxy for overall search intensity, increased to 12.1 percent during the period of June 8 to 12, also climbing 3 percentage points from May 25 to 29.
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ComScore says Microsoft's average daily penetration among U.S. searchers reached 16.7 percent during the work week of June 8 to 12, up 3 percentage points from the May 25 to 29 work week prior to Bing's introduction. Moreover, Microsoft's share of search result pages in the United States, a proxy for overall search intensity, increased to 12.1 percent during the period of June 8 to 12, also climbing 3 percentage points from May 25 to 29.
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Rick responded 5 months ago: #1
Microsoft is currently cheating to win. IE6 is having issues that force users to use Bing instead of their choice for searches within the browser. Read about it here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=5d671c895cbcfb20&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=5d671c895cbcfb20&hl=en
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