Many Internet analysts and bloggers have speculated the legitimacy growth of Bing web traffic which has surpassed giant Google domination in search market share since early 2010. The last two weeks data from Hitwise and comScore have pointed that Bing genuinely gained share in America. And now, using data from 40,941,886 impressions from its network, Chitika Research also confirmed the previous search share numbers.
Chitika Research concluded that Bing recent share gains are not from the result of controversy as tricks or slide-show manipulation which have skewed the overall data collections by Hitwise or comScore or other web traffic data providers.
As of mid-July, Chitika data shows that Bing has gained about 2.2% from April. Bing now has about 6.6% share. In the meantime, between April and July, Google has dropped about 3.1% from April. Google now has about 85.8% share.
(Table: Chitika)
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