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15 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

comScore Search Engine Ranking September 2009

There has been some confusion about the latest developments in the U.S. search engine market. As TechCrunch reports, Hitwise and StatCounter reported Microsoft Bing with a 5% to 10% loss in their market share (down from about 9.5 percent to 8.9 percent or 8.5 percent).
ComScore released their numbers yesterday and Microsoft’s market share has increased [...]

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03 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

How is Bing doing? Alexa.com

If you want to keep track of how Bing is doing, go and check out alexa.com. At the moment you will find bing.com ranking as number 17. Interestingly, Bing ranks better in i.e. Canada and France. Has there been advertising for Bing in France – or do the French use the Internet Explorer or other [...]

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23 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Bing continues to gain market share

In August 2009, Bing gained 0.4% of the domestic search market (Google: -0.1%, Yahoo!: 0.0%).
Compared to August 2008, Microsoft’s search volume grew by 31.9% (Google: +21.6%, Yahoo: +16.8%).
You can get all the numbers over at Techcrunch.

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20 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Bing Cashback’s Back to School success: the numbers, part II

Now here are the real numbers (courtesy of compete.com):
Top 10 most visited retailers from bing cashback and the change in traffic due to the back to school campaign:

Top 10 retailers with the largest growth and the cashback rate they offered during bing’s campaign:

And finally the conversion rate during the bing cashback back to school promotion [...]

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18 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

News on Microsoft’s new products and bing advertising numbers

Jason Tabeling from searchenginewatch.com shares some experiences he had with his clients. Since the launch of bing, cost per click (cpc) rose substantially. This seems to be a result of the buzz that came with the launch of bing: it attracted more advertisers and thus increased the competition for keywords.
On the other hand, cost per [...]

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16 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Bing Cashback’s Back to School success: the numbers

Debra Miller from Compete.com just posted some interesting numbers on Microsoft Bing’s recent “back to school” promotion.
Here’s a quick review:

During the back to school promotion, traffic to bing cashback increased more than 30%
hp.com and eastbay.com managed to climb into the top 10 list of retailers most visited directly from bing. Eastbay offered a staggering 50% [...]

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