Microsoft's Search Share Up, Google Down In June

The latest evidence that Microsoft's Bing is off to a successful start: Web analytics firm StatCounter says Microsoft's share of the search market was up 0.5 percentage points to 8.23 percent last month. Google's meanwhile actually dropped slightly from 79.07 percent to 78.48 percent. Steady if not spectacular might be the best way to describe performance to date, says StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen in a statement.