Reports of Yahoo Getting Binged Appear to be Mistaken

From DailyTech: The Yahoo Microsoft saga is an irresistible one for the tech news community, both for journalists and readers alike. After Yahoo scorned Microsoft's 2008 purchase offer, Microsoft decided to go its own way, cooking up Kumo. So when the newly renamed Kudo, now Bing, was released last week and appeared to seize second place in searches from Yahoo, some quickly reported Microsoft to be victorious over Yahoo. Now it appears those reports may have been premature.

If there has been one consistent thing about Bing and its reception, it has been the lack of consistency. Some have showered praise on the search engine, arguing that while not a leap and bound over Google, it provides a much better experience than the old Live search and better options to refine your search.

Other reviewers were less positive, including a particularly scathing review by PC World which accused Microsoft of "binging" customers. It claimed Microsoft's Cashback discounted "best price" items which appeared as search results were actually substantially more expensive than offerings from discount retailers like Amazon.com and Newegg.com.

Then came a StatCounter report at the end of last week, which claimed Bing scored 16.28 percent of U.S. search traffic last week compared to 10.22 percent by Yahoo and 71.47 by Google. The report put Bing's worldwide total at 5.62 percent, compared to 5.13 by Yahoo and 87.62 by Google. Some blog sites like TechCrunch began to hail Bing as having stolen marketshare from Google and using to bing Yahoo, sprinting into second.

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