Last month,
Office 2007 Professional, I noted that regardless of a series of regular search-share gains for Bing,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, the “Microhoo” combined share was stuck at around 28 percent in the U.S. (In other words,
Office 2010 Activation, Microsoft’s gains were being offset by Yahoo’s losses.)
But according to the January data from comScore,
Windows 7 Home Premium, the pair have finally managed to hit a new high: Acombined reveal of 29.2 percent of explicit core lookup share in the U.S. (Explicit core lookup share removes certain categories of searches that comScore doesn’t deem to be actual “user-engaged” searches.)
January’s data from comScore:
Google: 65.6 percent (compared to 66.6 in December)
Yahoo: 16.1 percent (was 16.0 in December)
Microsoft: 13.1 percent (was 12.0 in December)
Microhoo: 29.2 percent (compared to 28.0 in December)
Bing was up considerably in January — and that was even before the whole copy-cat tempest-in-teapot. Think what February might be like with all those folks Binging “hiybbprqag”….