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Re:Eric Schmidt testifies: Bing could eclipse Google by next... by acangiano on Friday September 23, 2011 @05:19PM (#3031623)
In my experience with a variety of sites, Google's market share is easily 80-85% (according to the stats for each of these sites). And I don't mean technical sites, for which it's rarely below 95%. Whether you consider Bing alone, or you consider Bing and Yahoo, I don't buy for a second that they have anything over 15-20% market share at the moment.
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Re:Eric Schmidt testifies: Bing could eclipse Google by next... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @02:50PM (#3044669)
This is probably a more interesting metric, which is seeing the referrer lets you know how someone found your site. And Google consistently scores higher numbers here on my personal web site.

However, that statistic says more about ranking too, since sites higher in the ranking in Google's results will get more referrer hits, if the same site was lower ranked in Bing's index it would get fewer hits from Bing. In the ideal case one could compare the relative referrals from a site which falls in the same spot (preferably #1 for best sampling) on both indexes.

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