Bing, the new Microsoft search engine, captured slightly more United States searches than Yahoo in the first eight days of June, according to StatCounter Global Stats, a firm that tracks Web use. That is a milestone for Bing, whose share of the search pie has been slowly rising since it was unveiled on June 3.

During June, Bing increased Microsoft’s share of the search market by 1 percentage point, according to StatCounter, which tracks the number of times users click on search results, rather than the number of searches run. Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter’s chief executive, said it was common for search engines to briefly surge after being introduced, as did the search engine Cuil in July 2008, but it was less common for them to stay hot for this long. Read more…

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