Now, analytics and research firm StatCounter has released their July numbers for search, and they're telling the same story: Bing is gaining traction. According to the report, Bing has gained 1.24% market share, up to 9.41%.
But this time, those new searches didn't come at the expense of Yahoo, whose search engine Microsoft will soon take over, but from Google itself, which lost nearly 1% of the search market during the month.
According to StatCounter, Yahoo and Bing combined now control more than 20% of the search market, up from 19.27%. comScore indicates that their combined market share in June was 29%, so there is some disagreement as to the actual numbers. However, we're more interested in the growth trends, which clearly are favoring Microsoft. Here's the graph: