The real story is that Yahoo has simply had a steady slide downwards. And Bing has barely increased. Plus, AT WHAT COST for Microsoft? Lots of $$$ spent with their online division and so far, they are in the red since Bing started… So basically this is really a story of Google continuing it’s dominance with a 65% market share since like forever… A non story really… Oh well guess it was a slow news day

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/12/microsoft-eclipses-yahoo-in-us-search-for-1st-time/

Here are the latest search engine Market Share numbers.

comScore
Google held steady at 65.5 percent (up from 65.4 percent in April).
Yahoo held steady at 15.9 percent for the second straight month.
Bing grew to 14.4 percent (up from 14.1 percent in May)
Ask held steady at 2.9 percent.
AOL fell to 1.4 percent (down from 1.5 percent).

via June 2011 Search Engine Market Share from comScore, Hitwise – Search Engine Watch (#SEW).

GOOGLE INSTANT! Waiting for it to roll out to me… haven’t seen it happening yet…  really great though! Hats off to Google… I wonder if this will work across all of the subsections of search: news, shopping, etc.?  Will find out and let everyone know!

YouTube – Introducing Google Instant.

I disagree that Google is “struggling” to survive here, but this is a good synopsis of Google vs Facebook and the issue of the the latter’s LIKE button.

The Center Of The Google Vs Facebook War: The Like Button.