Bing rings 70% search rise for Microsoft sites

The global search market grew a sizeable 46 percent between December 2008 and December 2009, from 89.7 billion to 131.4 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations. These searches include the top properties where search activity is observed, not only the core search engines.Google of course took first place, but Microsoft managed to see the biggest percentage change, at least when looking at the top five search properties. When you represent the data visually, though, a larger percentage change isn’t so formidable:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/bing-rings-70-search-rise-for-microsoft-sites.arsAlso see:Are Bing and WolframAlpha catching up with Google in search engine battle?
The front of the pack isn’t always the best place to be. In a panel of search engine representatives at the Munich DLD conference, Google’s Ben Gomes was the most reluctant to give anything away. Alsio on the panel were Conrad Wolfram, of WolframAlpha, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the architect of Microsoft Visual Earth, and Ilya Segalovich, of Yandex – Russia’s largest search engine.Questions from the panel host, Jochen Wegner, the editor of Focus Online, kept on coming. Is it possible to compete with Google in non-English-speaking markets – as the successful Yandex does? “We have done very respectably in almost all markets we are in,” was Gomes’s answer. Is Google failing in giving the right answers, especially when a topic becomes very popular? “We have recently launched 500 changes. Overall, search gets better day after day after day.” Are you reacting to Bing? “I don’t believe we are reacting to Bing in any way. We are really focused on the user.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jan/25/google-bing-wolframalpha-search-engine