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Just yesterday we heard that Bing has overtaken Yahoo in terms of search. Today, we hear that Internet Explorer is eating up Mozilla Firefox marketshare.

Geographic Shifts in Internet Usage Show Firefox Over-Reported, Internet Explorer Gains Share

With the new C.I.A. numbers factored in, Firefox loses global share since many of the countries it is most popular in (Western European, in particular) now have a lower percentage of global internet users. Internet Explorer gains as browser usage shifts to countries with higher percentages of Internet Explorer users.

On Google Chrome, the report says

Chrome surpassed 10% share of global browser usage for the first time in January by gaining .72% share month to month.

Overall, Internet Explorer is going to be the winner in medium term of say 10 years? I have seen that people have not even loaded mozilla or Chrome as they don’t come built in. In India, atleast, the government applications are built to support IE and people do not have internet connections with unlimited plans. The same trend is shown by the report too.

Internet Explorer 8.0 showed strong growth in January, gaining 1.15% share month to month (1.18% including custom editions). The latest beta version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 9 surpassed 0.5% usage share worldwide. Windows 7 remains the largest user base of Internet Explorer 9, and it now accounts for 1.82% usage on Windows 7 worldwide.

Bing has a lead over on Yahoo says Statcounter. Please read my past posts, I have been betting on Bing for quite sometime now.

One of the reasons, I saw it coming is that “Yahoo is a selfish search engine.” It tries to promote its own links first and it may not what we want. This is the same mistake Google is making and we have already told you that.

But Bing is by no means the Google of 1990′s even if we have fond that it is the best new bet on pure search engines. Google is not going to be defeated by the Bing any time soon. Here is what Statcounter has to say

StatCounter Global Stats finds that globally Bing reached 4.37% in February ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93%. Both trail far behind Google’s 89.94% of the global search engine market. In the United States Yahoo! at 9.74% still retains its lead over Bing at 9.03%. Google’s share in the US is 79.63%. In July 2009 Microsoft announced an agreement whereby Bing would power the Yahoo! search technology. This has been implemented in the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico.

Facebook, an important player has refused to share its data with google, but, Bing has included Facebooks likes in its search and powers facebook search. This could be a loose brick for google.