Microsoft's Bing has already caught up to rival Yahoo
Bing has briefly outranked Yahoo in the search stakes, according to one net stats firm - although it has since slipped back to third place.
StatCounter said it took just days for Microsoft’s recently revamped search to overtake it’s rival – and former acquisition target – Yahoo, with Bing taking 16.28 per cent of the US market to Yahoo’s 10.22 per cent by the end of last week. Google still holds 71.47 per cent.
As of last week, globally Bing held 5.62 per cent of the market, just pipping Yahoo at 5.13 per cent. Both are miles behind Google’s 87.62 per cent, however. Fellow web stat firm Net Applications noted last week that Bing hit six per cent market share within hours of launch, pulling it’s piece of the pie away from “legacy search engines, Google, Yahoo and elsewhere,” the firm said.
