Bing at Month One

[djbaxter]

Bing at Month One
by Bing
July 13, 2009

We?re gratified to report that there has been some great interest in trying out Bing and that those experiences are yielding positive results! We saw 8 percent growth in unique users to Bing.com in June, which is an important indicator that you are trying Bing and the word is spreading. Based on our own polling, we have also seen the number of people ?likely to recommend? Bing double in our debut month. This is an important metric to us because we think it speaks to Bing?s ability to meet your needs, be they for general purpose searching or for searches to help you make smarter decisions in one or more of our four focus areas of shopping, travel, health and local.

On Bing Shopping, we?ve seen a nearly a 3x increase in site visits and a 5.42% increase in transactions to Bing cashback. Summer is typically not high season for online shopping, so this has been really nice to see. We hope you?re finding some great deals. If you missed it, here?s another recent post on how to take advantage of Bing cashback.

Traffic to Bing Travel has increased by 90% month over month since launch, highlighting a strong reception to some of the great features designed to help travelers make smarter, more informed decisions on their airfare and hotel purchases. More information on how to use Bing Travel to find great travel deals can be found here.

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[keywordresearch]

It's good to see bing doing well. I for one am hoping they continue their progress and become a serious competitor for Google. Google has dominated for too long which has created some problems for the seo community. If search market share was more balanced there would be more business opportunity and Google would have less control over the fate of every website.