Hitwise published their March 2011 search market share report.

This time Bing has reached 30% market share, while Google’s share dropped to under 65%. Google is still leading, but Bing continues to grow in market share. From February to March, Bing jumped 5% in share while Google declined 3%.

Here is the chart:

What I also found interesting is that people are searching more for one word keywords than in the previous month. Take a look at this next chart.

Are searchers getting dumber or are search engines getting smarter?

And if so, is Google getting dumber because they are losing share?

A WebmasterWorld thread blames Google for Google’s decline. Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld said:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.