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Bing, Microsoft’s Search engine, has been making a steady progress ever since it went online. Its search market share has increased & at the same time yahoo’s has been going down. Bing has made many improvements like Twitter deal, improving the maps & others. In the US market google has around 67% followed by Yahoo & MSN around 14.5% & 9.9%. Also in the global market google has a great market share. Also AOL & Ask.com are also in the top 5 spots in US. Microsoft has been on a tie up spree by providing for the Bing tool bar with several companies. Google is also moving into the mobile market now releasing its own phone & thereby tapping the huge mobile search market as well.

Microsoft’s Bing which has been having a steady rise in the search Market share has come out with the list of top searches for 2009. Bing with its unique features like Image in the background, positioning & heavy dose of Marketing has been making news. Here is the list of top searches for 2009. Surprisingly it was the death of Michael jackson which has topped the list followed by Twitter. Many users use search engines to go directly to the site rather than typing the URL. This is one of the reasons for twitter trending at 2. Bing is also launching a Quiz on Facebook to look for Popular searches for 2009.
This is sure to give a good coverage for Bing. Also for the Hollywood celebrity list, it is Perez Hilton & not Britney spears who tops the list. Britney Spears used to be the Top Search Term earlier before her career took a dive. Bing also announced partnership with Twitter to display its Real time results.

Top Bing Trending Topics:

1) Michael Jackson
2) Twitter
3) Swine Flu
4) Stock Market
5) Farrah Fawcett
6) Patrick Swayze
7) Cash for Clunkers Jon and Kate Gosselin
9) Billy Mays
10) Jaycee Dugard

In October, Google & Bing have both gained search market share while yahoo lost the market share. Google’s search share climbed to 65.4% in Oct, up from 64.9% in September. Microsoft increased to 9.9% from 9.4%, while Yahoo down to 18% from 18.8%. Bing has been making great inroads into the search market with new features. Bing was the first to announce results from Twitter will be included in search & also the info fom Wolfram Alpha as well. Google has announced several features as well like twitter results in google, Search wiki. There has not been any major announcements from Yahoo recently about the improvements to its search. It is hightime yahoo takes a major surgery for its search business. It seems the marketing promotions taken out by Bing seems to have paid off. It would help if Bing launches some more products bearing the Bing brand name like customized pages, search wiki & others.

Microsoft’s bing has started offering twitter’s real time search on bing.com/twitter in US. This is in the intial stages & might be rolled out in globally as well. Bing will also start to index & display facebook comments. This was announced at the web 2.0 conference at San francisco. Google has announced that twitter’s real time search would also be available on google. Bing is finding new ways to increase the search share. With this social media & real time search have made it to the heart of search engines. This will also help search engines to attract new ad revenue. facebook’s updates will also be available on google. Google holds around 70% of us search market share with bing at 10%

Microsoft has been emphasizing on Search Engines & Bing is its new SE. It is also coming out with new Advt on rethinking about search engines. Share of microsoft’s in search market is less compared to Google & is emphasizing more on SE technology. Last year it also tried to purchase Yahoo’s search business to boost its search market presence. Now with real time search of Twitter, search teachnology is reaching new heights. Google has also introduced several new improvements to search.