Internet usage tracking firm StatCounter has released new figures for the search engine market for July 2009, and finds that Microsoft’s Bing search offering has gained another one percent of the search market during the month, brining its total to 9.41 percent of the U.S. search market. That’s up from 8.23 percent in June, but—perhaps more importantly—Bing seems to have taken most of that one percent from Google, which StatCounter says saw its share decline from 78.48 percent to 77.54 percent of the U.S. search market.
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StatCounter: Bing Boosts Microsoft Search Share One Percent
Redmond software giant Microsoft may just be getting started with spending up to $100 million promoting its new Bing search engine, but if the first month of operation is anything to go by, Microsoft may eventually be able to whittle away from of Google’s enormous market share advantage in Internet search. According to media analysis firm StatCounter, Bing has managed to elevate Microsoft’s share of the U.S. Internet search market one point, from 7.21 percent in April to 8.23 percent in June. Much of the gain appears to have come at Google’s expense; according to StatCounter, Google’s share dropped from 79.07 percent in April to 78.48 percent in June.


