Bing helps Microsoft continue to gain steam in search market.Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft's Bing continues to gain steam. The week after Bing's official launch early this month, Microsoft's share of the search market increased by 3%. <p>And according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ComScore, Inc., an online market tracker, Bing, an update to Microsoft Live See Windows Live. Search, provided the company with the same boost in its second week. Microsoft gained another 3% last week, garnering 16.7% of the search business, according to ComScore. <p>"It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week," said Mike Hurt, ComScore senior vice president, in a statement. "The early data reflects a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch."<p>Today's report from ComScore comes less than two weeks after a study from StatCounter Global Stats showed that Bing had surpassed Yahoo Inc. to become the number two search engine both in the U.S. and worldwide. StatCounter, which analyzes Web site traffic, also found that Bing grabbed some market share from rival Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). Inc. <p>The StatCounter report is based on analysis of search engine use four days after the new search engine became available on June 1. The study found that while Google still dominates the U.S. search engine market with a 71.47% share, Bing holds 16.28% of the market and Yahoo is third at 10.22%.<p>Microsoft announced this week that it has added a separate domain to Bing just for pornographic por·nog·ra·phy n. 1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. 2. The presentation or production of this material. 3. images and video. The company is trying to make it easier for companies and organizations to filter explicit images out of search results.<p>Having the single porn domain basically means Bing is able to better categorize cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat images and video as pornographic or not. If all of the elicit e·lic·it tr.v. e·lic·it·ed, e·lic·it·ing, e·lic·its 1. a. To bring or draw out (something latent); educe. b. To arrive at (a truth, for example) by logic. 2. images and video are in one domain, companies and organizations can set up Bing searches so they don't get search results from that one place.<p>Copyright 2009 IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) Middle East. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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