Bing Takes UK No.2 Spot

Tuesday, 09 June 2009 03:04

Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, has already overtaken Yahoo to become the UK’s second most popular search provider.

According to Hitwise UK, on its launch date of 3 June Bing received 10.8% of all UK search engine traffic, ahead of both Yahoo and Ask. The search engine was also the eighth most visited site in the UK on 2 June, ahead of all BBC properties.

Traffic to the site since has declined — on 6 June 2009 it accounted for 3.1% of search engine traffic — but it remains above Yahoo and Ask. Average time spent on Bing has also increased to 8.5 minutes, despite the decrease in traffic.

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