It’s been just over six months since the new AI-powered Bing with Bing Chat launched – but its overall search engine market share remains virtually unchanged globally and in the U.S.
Why we care. When the new Bing launched, it felt like the dawn of an exciting new era in search. Microsoft seemed to have a legitimate chance to erode some of Google’s dominance and become a truly worthy competitor to Google, thanks to its new conversational and generative AI take on search. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.
By the numbers. Bing’s U.S. search market share was 6.47% in July, per StatCounter.
Bing’s global search market share was 2.90% in July, per StatCounter.
Microsoft disputes these numbers. A WSJ article today (paywalled, so I’m not linking to it) noted that:
StatCounter said its data takes traffic to and from Bing’s chat into account.
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s corporate VP and consumer CMO, told WSJ the company’s internal data shows Bing taking market share from Google, but failed to provide any figures.
Microsoft celebrates six months. Microsoft’s Aug. 7 blog post highlighting the number of chats (1 billion) and images created (750 million), as well as nine quarters of growth for Edge. And it earned them a surprising amount of PR thanks to many publications covered the launchiversary (Search Engine Land was not among those, because there was nothing new to report to you).
Dig deeper. Here’s some of our previous coverage of the AI search engine arms race that never actually became a race:
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