Microsoft’s Bing accounted for 5.25 percent of all U.S. searches for the month of June, according to the latest data from Hitwise.
Google continued to hold on to its dominant position growing 7 percent year-over- year capturing 74.04 percent of the U.S. search market for the month.
Yahoo landed in the second position with 16.19 percent of the search market, but saw its growth drop 17 percent year-over-year, while Ask received 3.15 percent of searches with its growth slipping 22 percent year-over-year.
Microsoft Captures Peter Jackson For Halo
The Oscar-winning director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will be an executive producer of Microsoft’s ‘Halo’ movie.
Gaming fans should be delighted to find out that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, fresh from creating the forthcoming King Kong movie, will be executive producers for the movie version of Halo. Microsoft’s video game about soldiers fighting an alien menace called the Covenant drove sales of the Xbox game console when it was released.
Report: Cisco Systems Captures Enterprise Voice Revenue Market Share
Cisco is Now Number-4 Voice Vendor Worldwide; Only Vendor to Realize Revenue Market Share Gains Calendar Q2 2004, According to Synergy Research.