Google very strong in India

ComScore has released a report on 14th September 2009 confirming Google’s strong relative position in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. As per the report in July 2009, 29.8 percent of total time spent online in Brazil was spent on Google Sites while in India it was 28.9 percent.

In India, Google sites share of total time spent in search related activity accounted for 88.4 percent, Orkut - 68.2 percent, Google Maps - 63.9 percent, YouTube - 82.8 percent, Blogger - 47.6 percent and Gmail - 46.8 percent.

Only time will tell if Bing can googly Google

Bing 'O' takes on Google.... Search market share up

As per "U.S. Search Engine Rankings" report released by ComScore on 22nd September 2009, Bing is slowly and steadily eating into Google search market share.

As per the report Americans conducted over 13.9 billion searches with Google accounting for 64.6 percent search market share followed by Yahoo sites with 19.3 percent and Microsoft Sites with 9.3 percent market share, a 0.4-percentage point gain versus July.



To some extent this increase in traffic share can be attributed to the aggressive ATL advertising campaigns undertaken by Microsoft. Following are some the Ads

Bing Search Overload Syndrome: Pregnant


Bing Cashback- Making You Money


Bing Travel: Price Predictor


Considering Bing was launched in the month of June 2009, 3 months of existence with close to 10 percent market share is extremely commendable. Also, if Antitrust body clears Microsoft-Yahoo deal, we may soon see Yahoo using Bing as the primary search engine thereby catapulting Bing to the second spot.

Microsoft with its huge cash balances has promised to take this fight to the death. Maybe in a year from now we will know whether a real fight is in store or its just a fizz waiting to die out.