Bing, too soon to celebrate

From here:

The numbers, obviously, are quite small—but perhaps more important is the fact that zeroing in on such a short period of time makes it difficult to reach any real conclusions. Sticking with StatCounter’s data, you’ll find that Google’s market share has actually fluctuated fairly regularly over the past several months. In March, for example, Google randomly dipped down to 76.49 percent of U.S. searches. Then, it bounced back to 79.08 a month later. Why? Who knows. But it wasn’t because of Bing—that word hadn’t even entered our vocabulary as a proper noun at that point.

(emphasis mine)

Looks like more The Bellcurve statistical misrepresentation to me. And the article makes the great point that it’s just too soon to tell.

I work a lot in SEO for clients, and often they come to me requesting numbers after only a week of implementing changes, but the results would be skewed as above.

Patience, Microsoft, patience. In due time, you’ll realize how much money you lost on television advertising.