Microsoft's new search engine Bing is apparently off to a good start, even surging slightly ahead of Yahoo, if only for a day.
Instead of being a groundswell for Microsoft, though, analysts said that the spike may only indicate consumers' trying out the newest search engine on the block.
For whatever reason, on Thursday at least, Bing was the second-place search engine worldwide, according to net metrics tracking firm StatCounter, which claims to monitor "in excess of ten billion page loads per month [globally]."
StatCounter's report says that on Thursday, Bing garnered second place status with 16.28 percent of searches in the US. That put it ahead of Yahoo, which had 10.22 percent of searches for that day. Of course, both still ran well behind Google which had 71.47 percent.
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