Microsoft’s Bing gained slight ground over Yahoo in terms of search traffic, the aftermath of Bing finally powering all of Yahoo’s searches. The web didn’t exactly turn on it’s head, as even cursory inspection of the numbers show that Google is still overwhelmingly the most popular search engine, and continues to gain ground against it’s competitors. That didn’t stop Microsoft cronies Ziff Davis from blogging about it heavily across platforms, which wouldn’t be a big concern except that ZD is a huge web source of information, and was acquired by CNET back in the 0’s for 1.6 billion dollars, and CNET is owned by CBS, and CBS is a Microsoft partner from way back. Which doesn’t really change the fact that the shift is expected and essentially inconsequential, but it does illuminate the need for “Don’t be evil” corporate charters. Or maybe it doesn’t, and Microsoft is totally a good guy, (as reported by ZDnet). Either way, this paranoia was powered and brought to you by Google Search, and will be for the foreseeable future of search.
