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Google Raises Internet Search Market Share Again in December; Bing Drops Share

Posted Jan 15th 2010 5:40PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)

Google Inc. (GOOG) won't be relinquishing its title of the largest search engine in the U.S. any time soon. Nielsen Media Research has indicated that Google captured 67.3% of the search market in December -- an increase from November's 65.4% share.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) Bing service dropped from November's 10.7% share to December's 9.9% share. In October and November, Bing was the talk of the town, as the replacement for Windows Live Search started off well and grew market share (although a distant third behind Yahoo. Is the bloom off the rose for Microsoft's Bing? Your call on that one.

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Would anybody buy Jeeves? Ask might go on block

Posted Oct 28th 2009 3:30PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deals, Rumors, Internet, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), Technology

Unless you already have a major foothold in the search engine market – or an amazing, disruptive technology that can make the world take notice – there isn't much point in staying. Competing with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is hard enough, even when you're Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) or Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ... and, apparently, when you're IAC/InterActive Corp (NASDAQ: IACI). Barry Diller is ready to give up Jeeves, but only if asked nicely.

Diller's presence in the search space is Ask.com, ranked #4 behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing. With a substantial gap between first and second, fourth barely registers at all. Ask.com has only a 2% U.S. market share, according to Hitwise, more than 60 percentage points behind the industry leader.

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