For many years Microsoft was the undisputed champion in the software arena. It had no serious challengers in the area of operating systems, search engines, productivity suites and search engines. Than a new kid came to the block and started making waves.
Steven Ballmer raised its eyebrows and started fuming about this new contender who wanted a larger piece of the pie. I would go even further, to say that the new contender wants the whole pie to himself. The new kid on the block, whose name is Google made dramatic inroads in the search engine global market share.
Google currently occupies the top spot with a commanding 64.6 percent share, accounting for 7 billion searches in August, a gain of 2.6 percent over July. Yahoo saw its search results drop 4.2 percent for the month to 1.7 billion, earning it 16 percent of the market. This is well and good, but Microsoft is not leaving without a good fight. With the launch of Bing search engine, Microsoft is ferociously fighting back with tooth and nail.
Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released last Monday.
The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search engine market.
This how the major search engine players stand as of August 2009:
(Credit: Nielsen Megaview Search
In an effort to allow search users to go through large volumes of data more quickly, Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new feature on its search engine, Bing, which it calls Visual Search. The feature allows users to browse through images rather than text snippets. Microsoft reportedly will be debuting a Bing 2.0 sometime soon sporting a variety of new features.
How useful or popular the feature will be is not clear. But if nothing else, it suggests that Microsoft’s Bing team has stepped up the pace of innovation as it tries to compete with Google.
If you want to experiment how these two search engines perform, please click here. This interesting software will display the search results side by side for you to compare which search engines rakes in more relevant information. So far, I’m still sticking with Google. Good Day.
I am really interested in the new Chrome OS. I would try it on a dime if it is as clean as Chrome browser is and as fast. I preordered Windows 7 and am anxious to see how it works out. There is a lot of news these days and it all interests me.
I spent one day restoring Patty’s computer. She clicked on an email she had sent that could not be delivered and was returned. She was curious as to why it wasn’t delivered and clicked on the notice. Well, it was a “worm” that locked her computer and wouldn’t let her do anything. When I got up the next day, she came out in her PJs and said, “My computer won’t come on.”
I had to reformat the hard drive and return it to the factory, new, condition. She lost everything on the computer. I feel sorry for her as it takes a lot of time to put her things back on the computer that she had saved on an external hard drive. Beware folks. If you send an email and it comes back, you should not open it.
I have not been able to get around much of late.
Hi Abe:
I’m also taking a close look on the evolution of Windows 7. I hope Microsoft doesn’t repeat the story of Windows Vista.
Yep, I know how your daughter must feel about losing all her information due to an infected hard disk. I had the experience of a hard disk crash and lost all my information. Fortunately, most of it was backed up on several sites on the Internet; specially my photographs.
Thank your for your warning about returned e-mails. Now we know.
Best Regards,
Omar.-