Microsoft’s Bing is finally joining with Social Media! Might need to pay more attention to Bing… oh wait… they are NOT growing any large market share against Google… hmmm… but social media IS growing… decisions, decisions…

Microsoft Bring Facebook Twitter Sharing to Bing Shopping Search | Search Engine Journal.

Bing’s Features for Someday in the Future.

Here is the latest data for the search engine market share.  Should be interesting to see what will happen with bing-yahoo over the next few months and if Microsoft will continue to pour money into TV ads if their market share does not increase much more… time will tell…

July 2009 Search Engine Market Share

Considering how much money Microsoft is spending on their Bing advertising campaign… this is not a lot gained for their effort methinks…

According to Statcounter, Bing managed to increase its share of the U.S. search market to 9.41% in July from June’s 8.23%.  The combined search market share of Bing and Yahoo is at 20.36% from 19.27% in June.

Google’s U.S. search market share slightly went down to 77.54% in July from 78.48% in June.

via Bing Gains 1% Market Share in July, Google’s Share Goes Down.