Web analytics firm Compete claims Microsoft’s Bing search engine grew from 8.7 percent in August to 8.8 percent in September, sparked by 25 billion queries. Bing users conducted an average of 5 searchers per day. However, Bing’s sponsored link click average was 6.4 percent, beating even Google and Yahoo’s average of 6 percent. Google paced the market per usual with a 72.6 percent share, growing 3 basis points and serving 9 billion searches for the month. However, Bing is indexing Twitter tweets for real-time search, with Google doing the same in a few months.
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Microsoft Bing served 25 million more queries in
September than it did in August, growing market share from 8.7 percent to 8.8 percent,
according to data released by Compete Oct. 22.
The Web analytics firm said Bing’s bid to help users find what they are looking for more quickly is…

















