Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was appropriate in questioning latest numbers displaying Microsoft;s Bing lookup had Yahoo Lookup about the run. (Her claim that the information applied to a modest segment of the population “maybe in Omaha someplace” was not.)On June 9, the click counters at comScore issued more reliable information that showed Bing, indeed,
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microsoft Office 2010 Activation, the initial results of a week;s worth of share analysis “show a substantial improvement in Microsoft’s position in the lookup market in the days following Bing’s introduction.”It;s not just a one-day lift in share, comScore officials said. Microsoft sites increased their collective average daily penetration among U.S. searchers from 13.8 percent during the period of May 26-30 to 15.5 percent during the period of June 2-6, 2009. Microsoft;s share of lookup result pages in the U.S. grew 9.1 percent, to 11.1 percent, during the same timeframe, comScore said.My ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan shared his week-long “lookup diary,
Windows 7 sale,” during which he tried making Bing his near-exclusive engne,
Windows 7 Enterprise, with mixed results. I,
Office 2010 Activation Key, too, have been trying to use Bing for more of my searches. Like Dignan, I;ve found Bing to be good when I;m looking for specfic consumables, like airfares, digital cameras, lists of symptoms for a medical condition. I;ve found it doesn;t return good results when I am researching a blog post (specifically, when I am looking to link a post I know has been written on a specific topic).Anyone else out there tried Binging it? What is working/not working for you?