[News] [Rival] Microsoft Bong: Fail
Roy Schestowitz
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Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
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| All the buzz comes from a new search market analysis by Web stats company
| StatCounter. Bing, the researchers say, secured 8.23 percent of all
| U.S.-based searches for the month of June. (Bing officially launched on June
| 3.) The previous month, StatCounter shows Microsoft sitting at 7.81 percent
| of U.S. searches. That amounts to a month-to-month increase of just under
| half a percentage point following Bing s debut.
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Microsoft participated in harassing Google in this case:
U.S. Inquiry Is Confirmed Into Google Books Deal
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| The Justice Department confirmed on Thursday that it was conducting an
| antitrust investigation into the settlement of a lawsuit that groups
| representing authors and publishers filed against Google.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/technology/companies/03google.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Recent:
Seattle data center fire knocks out Bing Travel, other Web sites
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| A fire last night at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center has knocked out
| service to some top Web sites, including Bing Travel and Authorize.net.
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Bartz, Bing tamp down Yahoo-Microsoft talk
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| Bartz says search engine Bing unlikely to make significant mark
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-revamp-raises-questions-on-yahoo-deal?siteid=yhoof
Bartz: Yahoo Is Fine, Thank You, Without Microsoft
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| Yahoo will do perfectly fine even if it doesn't strike any type of deal with
| Microsoft, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said Wednesday.
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Related:
Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
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| But Google's gain led to lower numbers for other search companies. Yahoo Inc.
| received 19.62% of U.S. searches in June, down from 21.31% last year, while
| MSN Search received 5.46%, down from 9.85% in June 2007.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148649/google_gets_70_of_us_searches.html
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Richard Rasker
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> Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
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> | All the buzz comes from a new search market analysis by Web stats
> | company StatCounter. Bing, the researchers say, secured 8.23 percent of
> | all U.S.-based searches for the month of June. (Bing officially launched
> | on June 3.) The previous month, StatCounter shows Microsoft sitting at
> | 7.81 percent of U.S. searches. That amounts to a month-to-month increase
> | of just under half a percentage point following Bing s debut.
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Interesting. In the past eight weeks, my own Web server registered exactly
two (2) bing requests. Out of a total of 21,000 requests from unique IP
addresses, some 15,000 of which were Google requests.
Ah well, Microsoft business as usual, I guess.
Richard Rasker
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Roy Schestowitz
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____/ Richard Rasker on Monday 13 July 2009 22:54 : \____
Microsoft pays a lot of publications (e.g. TechFlash) to generate excessive
buzz about Bong.
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