Viva la work arounds.

You seem to have missed my point so I will elaborate.

Yes I read the article completely, and what I mean to say is addressing the statement “Microsoft has proven that Google isn’t completely invincible as the dominant search engine.”

Microsoft still has a very small market share, especially considering the massive amounts of work and money thay’ve poured into this endeavour. The stats are showing that people are still, in the vast majority, very comfortable with their search engine of choice. You’ll notice that bing’s early stats are simply MSN, live, etc being replaced by bing.

Given that bing is the new kid on the block it’s understandable that some people are moving to it to give it a try. Many will likely go back because Google, for most people, is what people are used to and it provides very relevant serach results. As a side note, in my experience I’ve been unimpressed with bing’s relevance of search results.

They’ll likely grab a sizeable chunk of the Yahoo userbase because they don’t know what they are using now. They’ll just notice a little search icon replaced with a little bing icon. The rest would likely defect to Google because they are aware of the choices and find it to be superior (that’s how they got so high in the stats in the first place).

Phew, now that that’s done, it’s time to check iGoogle!

Did you actually read the article or just the headline? And have you been able to wrest search share from Google’s iron fist.

Yeah… I didn’t think so.