February search results show that Bing continues to grow as Yahoo sags.
Comscore reported that usage of Bing went up from 11.3% in January to 11.5% in February, while Yahoo’s stats during the same period dropped to 16.8% from 17%. Google’s stats remained essentially unchanged …
Apparently Microsoft is talking profit in the midst of 15 straight quarters of losses, according to a Paid Content article this morning. The company is looking to Bing to pull it out of its nearly four-year long slide, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft senior vice president of online business, said in an interview last night with Reuters.
According to the interview, Bing is looking at becoming a “credible No. 2″ as soon as Microsoft closes a deal with Yahoo, making Bing the backbone for Yahoo search. We do see a few areas where Bing has been gaining ground and wonder if Microsoft may be able to come back out of the red …
In the world of search engines, there are some things that have remained constant and one of them is Google. From the unforgettable choice of branding, Google has become a household name and it is no surprise to find Google as the homepage of choice for most PC owners. What Google has done is that it has stolen some of the popularity from Microsoft especially with all the new features that they have been introducing in the recent times as far as documentation is concerned. Live Search from Microsoft has always been around but most people have not been too eager to try it out. But now the gloves are off and it is a head to head battle …
