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Bing keeps rising, now 11.5%

22 points by cwan 17y ago

37prime 17y ago
Most of queries come from Facebook.
freetard 17y ago
Looking at this graph, it looks like Google is still rising too while yahoo is not. So Bing is taking market mostly from yahoo.
aresant 17y ago
Bets are that the real story is Yahoo's demise, and the Goog benefited more than Bing. . .
andrewljohnson 17y ago
I think these numbers are always suspect, and they never match what I see across any of my blogs and websites. The vast majority of search traffic to my websites is from Google to this day. Here's the numbers for one of them in the last month: * google (organic) 5,552 73.52% * yahoo (organic) 872 11.55% * (direct) ((none)) 618 8.09% * bing (organic) 200 2.65%
- Uchikoma 17y ago
  I also see different numbers, GA says for my blog: google 97.56% bing 1.52% yahoo 0.50%
  - whatusername 17y ago
    G: 1122 Y: 21 Bing: 1 On what is a non tech site (although the audience probably skews somewhat in that direction). But as has been mentioned, one site is not the whole internet.
- tomerico 17y ago
  Your site's demographic might not represent bing's demographic. In any case, a more meaningful data could be the trend of the data - is bing heading up or down in your site?
- python123 17y ago
  Clearly your website stats paint a clearer picture of what's going on than the combined stats of many websites.
- InclinedPlane 17y ago
  What are your user agent stats? I bet they skew heavily toward Firefox, Chrome, and Safari with IE a minority. Tech sites attract tech audiences, and techs tend to favor more modern browsers and google. Your stats say nothing about the popularity of Bing amongst the general internet using populace.
- dangrossman 17y ago
  There is a big difference between [traffic to the search engine's domain], [searches done on a search engine], and [traffic the search engine sends to other websites]. These are 3 different metrics. You can't extrapolate backwards from a website's referrers to gain knowledge of the first two metrics. It's easily explained by either searchers having to do more searches on Bing to find a page they want to click, or Bing presenting more information within their own site so that the searcher doesn't have to click away. If either of those rates is higher than Google, then Bing can have higher search share than it will have referral share among other websites.
mbreese 17y ago
This could easily have said "Bing stealing market share from Yahoo!" Or, "Bing: still hovering around 10%". Or, "Google: How the $#&@ are they still growing?" Specific numbers like this are always suspect. All you can really tell from this are trends... and the combined Bing/Yahoo juggernaut is still losing combined share to Google, ever so slightly.
- aneesh 17y ago
  Yes, Google is still growing (slowly). But Bing has gained more points of market share than Google in the past six months. Not just grown faster, but actually added more users than Google has added.
brianlash 17y ago
On this topic does anyone have experience with Bing (or Microsoft in general) as a PPC platform?

22 points by cwan 17y ago

Most of queries come from Facebook.

Looking at this graph, it looks like Google is still rising too while yahoo is not. So Bing is taking market mostly from yahoo.

aresant 17y ago

Bets are that the real story is Yahoo's demise, and the Goog benefited more than Bing. . .

andrewljohnson 17y ago

I think these numbers are always suspect, and they never match what I see across any of my blogs and websites. The vast majority of search traffic to my websites is from Google to this day. Here's the numbers for one of them in the last month: * google (organic) 5,552 73.52% * yahoo (organic) 872 11.55% * (direct) ((none)) 618 8.09% * bing (organic) 200 2.65%

Uchikoma 17y ago
I also see different numbers, GA says for my blog: google 97.56% bing 1.52% yahoo 0.50%
- whatusername 17y ago
  G: 1122 Y: 21 Bing: 1 On what is a non tech site (although the audience probably skews somewhat in that direction). But as has been mentioned, one site is not the whole internet.
tomerico 17y ago
Your site's demographic might not represent bing's demographic. In any case, a more meaningful data could be the trend of the data - is bing heading up or down in your site?
python123 17y ago
Clearly your website stats paint a clearer picture of what's going on than the combined stats of many websites.
InclinedPlane 17y ago
What are your user agent stats? I bet they skew heavily toward Firefox, Chrome, and Safari with IE a minority. Tech sites attract tech audiences, and techs tend to favor more modern browsers and google. Your stats say nothing about the popularity of Bing amongst the general internet using populace.
dangrossman 17y ago
There is a big difference between [traffic to the search engine's domain], [searches done on a search engine], and [traffic the search engine sends to other websites]. These are 3 different metrics. You can't extrapolate backwards from a website's referrers to gain knowledge of the first two metrics. It's easily explained by either searchers having to do more searches on Bing to find a page they want to click, or Bing presenting more information within their own site so that the searcher doesn't have to click away. If either of those rates is higher than Google, then Bing can have higher search share than it will have referral share among other websites.

mbreese 17y ago

This could easily have said "Bing stealing market share from Yahoo!" Or, "Bing: still hovering around 10%". Or, "Google: How the $#&@ are they still growing?" Specific numbers like this are always suspect. All you can really tell from this are trends... and the combined Bing/Yahoo juggernaut is still losing combined share to Google, ever so slightly.

aneesh 17y ago
Yes, Google is still growing (slowly). But Bing has gained more points of market share than Google in the past six months. Not just grown faster, but actually added more users than Google has added.

brianlash 17y ago

On this topic does anyone have experience with Bing (or Microsoft in general) as a PPC platform?