Is Microsoft Bing a success ? Stats say No !
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Soon after its release on June 1st, it looked like Microsoft Bing over shadowed Google at least for a day. People were talking about it, testing, finding bugs and surprises, comparisons and what not ?
But now, it looks like Microsoft Bing was only just that – some buzz !
I’m pretty sure all of us tried it and found it, err….well interesting of course. But “decision engine” ? I don’t know ! Its a good concept anyway.
Compete has released its week traffic stats for Bing and things look very disappointing.
Here’s the first chart showing daily change in searcher penetration over the past week. It shows how marketing and buzz around the Bing launch has greatly extended the reach it inherited from MSN/Live.
And here is the second graph which shows why Google and Yahoo are not affected by BIng. In fact, whatever BIng enjoyed was either testers trying out Bing or people redirected from the Microsoft channels like Live.com (which too have grown weak over the week.)
Find out more details here.
I have been using bing for sometime now and its pretty good…kinda my default search nw…
I use google only to see my serps these days!!!
Google is No.1
Bing has been fantastic. I’ve tried it out for the last couple of weeks. Anything it doesn’t find my results, I go to google and type in the same words and google doesn’t find it either. I am a software engineer, so I use search technology often to work with new technology. Live Search was terrible!!! Glad to see Microsoft finally stepping up their search game.
I don’t think that Bing will be successful until Microsoft sort out their indexing issues.
For example, sites that have almost all their pages indexed in Google have barely 20% indexed in Bing.
Therefore Bing is not seeing most of the web.
I wish Microsoft would sort this out – they have millions at their disposal and the brightest people working for them.
Great Post, I’d like to refer to it in my next post. Here is a link to a series of articles describing IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Google. This is the main article with links to the related articles that have been published. the first one is Here, overview and description of market position.