Microsoft’s new “decision engine”, Bing, seems to be a hit: It deals with not less than 6% of worldwide search queries only hours after the start and is currently processing more than 5% of worldwide searches, according to Net Applications.

But most of the market share of Bing is seen from the cannibalization of legacy Microsoft browsers, MSN Search and Windows Live Search.

This is to be expected, given the fact that Microsoft’s other search services now redirect users Bing. But it has little to support the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s claim that search engines “do not do a very good job, so that the use of the information they find.”

If search engines like Google and Yahoo are not effective, one would expect an exodus, a better alternative presented.

Bing may be some impact on the number of Google users, but if so, the impact is negligible. On consecutive days at 10 EDT clock, from 26 to May to 1 June – when the availability of Bing was widely reported – Google search revealed statistics of 63.19%, 63.09%, 62.30%, 62.71%, 62.49%, 62.02%, and 62, 27%, as measured by Net Applications.

While this might be a slight decline in the use, it could be a normal fluctuation margins provided for Google. The view that on 23 May 10 clock CEST, Google’s search market share of 62.09%. And on 13 May 10 clock CEST, Bing was before, Google’s search market share of 59.46%.

In May, the global search market share for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to 81.50%, 9,39% and 5,43% and after NET applications.

Another Web metrics firm ComScore, in the April U.S. search market share to 64,20% for Google, Yahoo and 20.40% to 8.20% for Microsoft.

Consumer response to Bing seems to be mixed. A discussion of the Bing-the advantages and disadvantages of online community site includes MetaFilter redundancies as follows: “It is like the newer Zune. There is not anything much worse than the market leader. But why change it? Since pretty much the same as the market leader is insufficient if you’re not the leader. ”

But the discussion also claims like: “My first tests on relatively obscure searches … turn results, as well as Google. … There is a massive undertaking, and I am impressed by the results.”

For Microsoft, the challenge now to win those not using Windows Live Search and MSN Search already.

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