Market News: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS)
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 11:15 AM EDT
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engine has been rapidly rising in popularity since its launch in June of last year. In August, it overtook Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) as the No. 2 U.S. Internet search engine, after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), for the first time, according to a Nielson report Tuesday. Bing accounted for 13.9% of August searches, compared to 13.1% for Yahoo, Nielsen said in the report. Google still accounted for about two-thirds of all U.S. searches. The Microsoft-owned visual search engine appears to have taken market share from Yahoo since last year. Bing searches increased 30% in the past year while Yahoo searches were down 18%, Nielsen says. –Daily Finance Goldman Sachs… . . . → Full Story: Market News: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS)