Bing Beats Digg, Twitter in Traffic
Thursday, July 9, 2009 2:10PM - By Jared Newman
It’s official: The Microsoft search engine known as Bing is more popular than a few high-profile but completely unrelated Web sites. Seriously, of course a search engine backed by one of the biggest companies in the world, not to mention $80 million to $100 million in marketing, will grow to surpass the sites it’s presumably indexing. It’s actually best to just ignore the line graphs for Twitter, CNN and Digg, and just look at how Bing has jumped to 50 million unique visitors in the course of a month. That is impressive, but it remains to be seen how heavily-visited the site will be once the buzz dies down. For now, it’s Microsoft’s moment, so we’ll let this article pass without mentioning that other search engine. [Compete via Mashable]
Friday, July 10, 2009 6:07AM
Just wrote about Bing's future click name link. How well the momentum is maintained after the money runs out is the issue.
Friday, July 10, 2009 2:21PM
Definitely just buzz…BING can't touch Google. I think seeing the number of visitors that have visited BING 10+ times (or whatever) would be a better indicator of success. Because keep in mind, every new install of Windows comes with IE which has its homepage set to BING, so there's a unique visit that wasn't even intentional. Not to mention the visitors (like myself) who went to BING once and were back to Google after their first search.