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In the USA Microsoft Search Overtakes Yahoo

It was reported last week that Yahoo has been unseated as the #2 search provider in the U.S. by Microsoft's search properties, according to Nielsen's August data.  During the month, Microsoft's Bing/MSN/Windows Live sites achieved market share of 13.9 percent, a rise of 2 percentage points compared to July and a leap of 30 percentage points compared to August 2009. Full Article

The rise would appear to be at the expense of Yahoo's traffic and not that the union of Microsoft and Yahoo are taking market share from Google. These figures are only representative of the U.S. market. I'm not aware if the situation has changed in the U.K. at this time.

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