Microsoft Corp. gained a larger portion of the U.S. Internet search market in February, while rival Yahoo Inc.'s share remained flat and market leader Google Inc. lost a marginal amount of market share, according to data published Wednesday by Experian Hitwise.
Yesterday, the monthly search market share numbers from comScore were released, showing Microsoft Bing up, Yahoo down and Google almost maintaining its dominance. This time it appears to be the verticals that are helping Bing, which has been its strategy to differentiate itself from the Google juggernaut.