http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm

That’s one search giant down. Bing, with the combined searches of Yahoo would approach 30%:

Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the BoomTown blog. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter, says another report from Advertising Age. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz “is essentially giving up on search,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land.

Yahoo salespeople likely will continue to sell the search ads that appear both on Yahoo sites and on Bing. And the company that sells an ad—in this case, Yahoo—may get as much as 80% of the resulting revenue.

It’s unfortunate with one less player in the search market although I am partly guilty of it since I kinda pro-Google.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages

That’s probably my favorite ‘feature’ of bing, so far.

- Bing API has been released with no usage quotas: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/08/microsoft-releases-bing-api-with-no-usage-quotas/
- Virtual Earth is no more as Bing Maps launches: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/10/goodbye-virtual-earth-hello-bing-maps/
- Bing’s #2 search engine reign (ahead of Yahoo) only lasted one day? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/07/quick-peak-bings-reign-as-2-search-engine-lasted-one-day/

Supporting Bing is like cheering for the underdog. I recall back then when Netscape is king I was trumpeting Internet Explorer. And when Firefox got popular I was telling people only good things about Google Chrome when slamming Firefox for having too much unnecessary features. And when ICQ was popular I was spreading the then MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger). There’s something about the underdogs that I couldn’t ignore – this hope to see a David-Goliath moment.

And now for Bing, I not-so-secretly hope for its success. We shall see.

I wonder if it’s got something to do with the default IE6 search.

I don’t like the name ‘Bing’.