StatCounter: Bing Overtakes Yahoo!

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03-04-2011
StatCounter: Bing Overtakes Yahoo!
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The Bing search engine overtook Yahoo! for the first time worldwide in January and increased its lead in February according to web analytics company, StatCounter.

Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that globally Bing reached 4.37 percent in February ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93 percent. Both trail far behind Google's 89.94 percent of the global search engine market.
In the United States Yahoo! at 9.74 percent still retains its lead over Bing at 9.03 percent. Google's share in the US is 79.63 percent. In July 2009 Microsoft announced an agreement whereby Bing would power the Yahoo! search technology. This has been implemented in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico.

"It is significant that Bing overtook Yahoo! globally for the first time on a monthly basis but it remains a tough battle to claw back Google's market share," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "Although Google dipped below the 90 percent mark in February worldwide for the first time since August 2009 it shows little sign of losing its global dominance any time soon."

StatCounter, which specializes in website visitor analysis for organizations and bloggers, provides free lifetime stats and free detailed analysis on the latest 500 hits. Members can upgrade to access more detailed stats from $5 a month.

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected on a sample of over 15 billion page views per month from across the StatCounter network of more than three million websites.

StatCounter, which provides free website traffic information, publishes search engine stats in its StatCounter Global Stats, a free online research tool. It also monitors Internet market share battles including browsers, Social Media and operating systems including mobile.

More Information:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-201002- 201102

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