Friday, March 11, 2011

Bing (MSFT) Gains, Google (GOOG) Falls in Search Market Share Says ComScore

ComScore confirmed recent results from HitWise that Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engine (including Yahoo), gained market share over Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the U.S.

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is powered by Bing, although it didn't gain share in February, according to ComScore.

Google dropped from 65.6 percent share in January to 65.4 percent in February, while Bing moved up to 13.6 percent share. Yahoo remained at 16.1 percent. Hitwise had the market share of Bing higher for February, gaining over a percentage point when combined with Yahoo.

Google was trading at $576.17, down $4.13, or 0.71 percent, as of 12:00 PM EST. Microsoft was at $25.53, gaining $0.12, or 0.47 percent. Yahoo was trading at $17.31, up $0.25, or 1.47 percent.

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