Bing’s market share hovers around 10%, but according to most sources, is increasing, though at a slow pace, and mostly at expense of Yahoo!. Even Google is advertising its music service on Bing! It continues to pose a viable threat to Google’s dominance, and by looking at just Bing, it would be hard to argue that elephants can’t dance! Would Bing continue to gain market share or would it get relatively stable somewhere in low double digits? Read the full article »

In an earlier post I argued that Google would benefit from acquiring search engines in verticals such as travel, jobs, and products. By doing so, Google can retain “rich” traffic which otherwise might directly go to those search engines for specific needs. Read the full article »

I rarely praise a product by Microsoft, but Bing forced me to do so. In fact, you will find a bunch of articles in praise of Bing today. Here, rather than discussing the features or UI of Bing, I would discuss a few core issues – namely vertical search and network effects, which will play an important role in the search engines war. Read the full article »