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Microsoft has been gaining more and more US users for its Bing search engine and today, ComScore's Internet search results for February 2013 showed that Bing by itself gained some more market share while Yahoo's share continues to decline.

The numbers from ComScore still show Google on top with 67.5 percent of the US Internet search engine market, up 0.5 percent from January 2013. Meanwhile, Microsoft's US search share is shown at 16.7 percent in February, up 0.2 percent from January.

Yahoo came in third with 11.6 percent for February 2013, down 0.5 percent from the month before. Bing is the basis for Yahoo's search engine,  and if you figure in the Yahoo numbers it effectively means that Bing's search engine share lost 0.3 percent of the Internet search market in February.

In a recent interview, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer indicated that the company was not yet happy with the Bing search engine deal in terms of Yahoo making money from the partnership with Microsoft. If Yahoo continues to see its market share in search dive as much as it did in February, the company could conceivably make some changes with its Microsoft-Bing deal.

ComScore also said that over 18.3 billion explicit core searches were conducted in February 2013 with Google-based sites generating 12.3 billion., down six percent from January. Microsoft-based sites were second with 3 billion searches, down five percent from the previous month.

Source: ComScore | Image via ComScore

I open Bing from time to time after Google strengthened its policy to filter out pages where you could download music. I still use Google as my main search engine, in fact it is my homepage. XD Never used Yahoo as a search engine at all.

It's hard to think of yahoo as a search engine. I rarely use bing, I'll try it a bit more often now maybe. I use google quite frequently.

Can't tell if it is better cuz I sincerely don't read Yahoo News but, have you seen the "news" tab in Google? Who knows, maybe it does the trick for you, in case Yahoo goes out of business or something lol:

https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn

Google use 90% of the time, Bing other 10 %. I didn't even know yahoo had a search engine. Since when? (JK)

People actually google with other search engines that are NOT google?

And to think, Microsoft almost overpaid for Yahoo a few years ago.

It's funny how things change.

Google pulling further ahead I see

Unfortunate, but hardly surprising. MS have been heavily promoting Bing and, in all honesty, the service really isn't that bad.

I'm kind of surprised Bing is still around, I though after about two years MS would just give up on it. But grats to them for sticking here and doing better than yahoo.