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Bing Records First Monthly Decline Since Launch : Statcounter
Tags: Aodhan Cullen, bing, CEO, Google, statcounter, yahoo
Web Analytics Firm Statcounter has released info that Bing’s share of the US search market in September fell by over one percentage point to 8.51% from 9.64% in August.
“The trend has been downwards for Bing since mid August,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “The wheels haven’t fallen off but the underlying trend must be a little worrying for Microsoft.”
Globally, Bing also declined slightly to 3.25% from 3.58% – a trend mirrored by Yahoo! which fell to 4.37% from 4.84%. Google breached the 90% mark to 90.54% – similar to its global market share a year previously (90.53%).
“Data is based on an analysis of 4.6 billion search engine referring clicks (1.1 billion from the US) which were collected during the period September 2008 to September 2009 from the StatCounter network of over three million websites,” the firm explains.
