Bing Peaks With Over 10% Of All UK Search Traffic
But only for a day, before falling to just over 3% market share, according to new Hitwise data.
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was officially launched on 3rd June.
According to Robin Goad, Research Director at Hitwise UK, “traffic peaked on June 3, when Bing was the eighth most visited website in the UK (ahead of all BBC properties, but one behind MSN UK) and the third ranked search engine, accounting for 10.8% of the UK market.”
“Since the initial launch hype, traffic to the site has declined. However, one positive sign is that average visit time has increased to eight and a half minutes. This is half of Google UK’s number but only slightly below Yahoo! UK Search, implying that the people are actually spending time on the site and using it rather than just visiting out of curiosity.”
Have you tried Bing yet?
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