Friday, July 31, 2009

Google is ‘the business’ for Irish shoppers

Since Microsoft launched its new improved search engine Bing two months ago it has set its sights on capturing a bigger market share (reflected even more in the new Yahoo! partnership) but how much ground has Bing gained and have Irish online shoppers made the switch?

A survey carried out by a group of Irish e-tailers focused on the search engine traffic over the last month for six commercial websites based here in Ireland and the results were clear: while Bing gained 3pc share of the search engine market, Google still has around a 92pc share of the traffic.
Aedan Ryan, owner of outdoor clothing store PuddleDucks.ie, said: "Google is still the overwhelming favourite for search among Irish online shoppers. Read More

Courtesy: Silicon Republic

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