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/

Are you  working on your Bing / Yahoo optimization?? You should!

That record high for Bing is 14.4 percent of market share – fairly impressive when you consider how young Bing is overall and that they only breached the 10 percent mark over the last year. This 14.4 percent market share combines with Yahoo’s 15.9 percent (about the same as Yahoo has held historically over the last couple years) to hit over 30 percent of the total market – up from about 20 percent last year and 25 percent at the end of 2010.

via Bing Hits Record Search Share, Google Stays Stable | Search Engine Journal.

Well,  the goliath called Google suffered a setback today, as it will no longer be serving ads up on friendly competitor Yahoo. Under some serious pressure, the bowed to it and are no longer working with Yahoo. What will be the impact of this?  Hmmm, Yahoo will be bought by AOL perhaps… that is my best guess…

Here ye, here ye! Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo… Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo… Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo… Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo… Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo… Google ads soon to start appearing on Yahoo…

Here is the official report at Google on this non-merger with Yahoo.