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Bing vs Google: Stats for July

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The much awaited stats for July are out for the search engines. Bing is already in to its second month and it was during July that the consolidation of Bing and Yahoo took place where Yahoo managed to keep its identity in tact. The statistical sample taken by Statcounter is of 1 billion out of which 258 million are of the U.S.

If Bing had to make an impact against Google I think enough time has been given to it although to be a patient person I will give it one more month for the combined might of Bing and Yahoo to assert itself.

The stats are for both the U.S and global, so what do they reveal?

Bing has increased its share in the U.S from 8.23% in June to 9.41% in July. The combined might of Yahoo and Bing stood at 20.36% in July compared to 19.27% in June. So how much did Google fall in the same period – by less than 1% from 78.48% in June to 77.54% in July.

Globally Google maintained its commanding presence at 89.23% in July while the combined might of Bing and Yahoo climbed up from 8.45% in June to 8.77% in July.

These results cannot certainly be said to be earth shattering for Bing. I think for a distinctly long period of time Bing will remain at this level give a percent here are there globally. The effect of consolidation will however be felt only next month that is when it will be known how many Yahoo users have decided to stay on with Bing and how many will have shifted to Google.

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http://gs.statcounter.com/

Bing vs Google:Caffeine is Heady News for Googlers

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The dust hasn’t settled since Bing’s arrival. The stats of the performance of Bing for the month of  July are not yet out. The hurry at which Microsoft has closed its deal with Yahoo indicate that Microsoft has realized that it cannot take Google by itself. The first round really went to Yahoo although share holders did not think so. At least Yahoo has not lost its identity, only its search engine.

You would think Google was quietly watching from the side lines. Well You were wrong. Google has made available what it has code named “Caffeine” – basically new architecture for Google existing under the hood. Google has invited web developers and power searchers to http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ where in they can check out the new hooded machine for its speed, indexing and ranking of the sites and can leave their comments.

From the reactions that have begun to pour in certain things are evident:

  • More number of results are being displayed.
  • If you Google yourself, your site is displayed on top.
  • Twitter at last seems to be getting its due from Google.
  • The speed is some thing that you should check with competition but “Caffeine” is definitely faster than Google.
  • Nobody will have complaints about Google’s method of ranking but one still has to wait for the word to be out from the Googlers.
  • Although not stated as yet crawling will definitely have become faster and this will help in real time search and development of a story as it unfolds.

Bing vs Google:Ad Click Stats

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There is a new angle to Bing vs Google. It is the number of users who actually click on the ads out of a sample of 32 million. The comparison has been carried out between Bing, Google and Yahoo.

Surprisingly, Bing is ahead with a click rate of 1.5% and Yahoo has not fared too badly either with 1.24% and Google comes in with 0.97%. It means that the ad click rate for Bing is 50% more than Google.

Two things stand out in these figures. First is the ad spend by Microsoft itself for Bing which could have increased the click rate. A statistical sample of 50,000 sites is a good enough sample irrespective of the type of sites selected.

Although the click rate for Google appears to be 50% less than Bing if you take the sheer amount of traffic of Google which is 22 times that of Bing globally and 8 times more than Bing in the U.S, the total number of clicks for Google will present a different picture. Notice that Bing was designed keeping in mind the commercial aspect first.

Once the Ad spend of Bing peters out and if the search volume of Bing increases(There is the Yahoo acquisition) then the stats will even out for both Bing and Google in as much as percentages are concerned.

Bing vs Google : The Official Stats are Out

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Data Research firms that monitor the number of searches made using a search engine have started releasing their figures. The first one to do so is Stats Counter a Dublin based firm that tracks the data of searches by taking a sample of 4 billion page loads in a month  and that is really a huge statistical sample.

The results are for the month of June for all the three search engines Bing, Yahoo and Google.

What news does it bring in for the harbinger of decision engine. People must be really dumb not letting bing take decisions for them. The number of searches using bing in the month of June from the time of its release rose from 7.8 to 8.2 %. If you take into consideration the figures for April, Microsoft’s share was 7.2%. With all the hue and cry and the publicity spend bing increased the search share of Microsoft by a mere 1%.

The surprise was Yahoo which not only stood its ground but actually managed to better its performance albeit only slightly.

That brings us to Google whose percentage dropped by a mere 0. 2% from 78.7 to 78.5.

We think the stats are self explanatory and may be Microsoft should ask bing to take a decision of their capabilities.