Last week, Hitwise released a report on search share, saying for one, Bing rose 6% in share, while Google fell 2% (Google still has 68% share). But the report also shared that Bing is a more successful search engine, having a success rate of 81.5% compared to Google’s success rate of 65.5%.
Hitwise explained:
Now, Google’s Matt Cutts took issue with this and shared it on Buzz. He said, and I am quoting only a bit of his argument:
Google is taking a beating on their search quality in the past six-months. The two Bs (Bing & Blekko) are beating them up and so far winning.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.