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Yahoo! Abandons Its Search Engine for Bing

Selboy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:16:28 +0000

Finally, Yahoo surrendered and abandoned its own search engine for the newly revamped search engine of Microsoft, “Bing”.

The deal between Yahoo and Microsoft that was announced last Wednesday, signaled the change in the search engine market.

Prior to the deal, Yahoo had 30 percent of US users, while Bing had only more or less 10 percent and the other part was almost owned by Google. But with this deal, it seems that Yahoo’s market share will fell to zero percent while that of Microsoft’s Bing will jump up to 30%.

What’s with the deal?

Well… According to the report, Microsoft will now power Yahoo’s searches with its new revamped search engine called “Bing”. Then Yahoo’s obligation is to monetize the searches.

Actually, I am currently wondering if it’s a good deal to Yahoo!. For me the better deal was when Microsoft offered Billions of money for the ownership of the entire Yahoo company or part of it.

Google Still Better than Bing

Selboy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:00:08 +0000

Since the launching of Microsoft’s Bing on June 2009, its market share in the US is continuously increasing.

According to the reports, Bing initially got 7.81% market share in the US and it increases to 8.23%. And many techy people who are observing the trend believed that it will be stealing more market shares from Google, especially that Bing started to include the tweets on its search results.

However, when Michael Jackson died, Bing users started to learn the failures of Microsoft’s Bing. Bing just couldn’t cope with the demands of its users on the fresh news updates through its search results.

Bing’s Jacquelyn Krones stated that, “By most reports, Bing did not deliver the best experience for our customers soon after TMZ posted the news on their blog, …As Search Engine Journal pointed out, we had the story but it was hidden at the bottom of the main page and even deeper in our xRank result.“