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45%? Not even in Ballmer's wet dreams.

and most of those gains must have come at the expense of Yahoo!

What is your projection for search market share in 5 years?

It's a business that takes lots of investment in scale. I think Google is one misstep away from Bing grabbing lots more share.

Google instant was a near-miss. Even on my new macbook wtih google chrome it's annoyingly jittery and hinders the user experience.

You can see how much they have moved in the past 12 months in this graph. Project this forward 5 years [flash warning]

so: not much. Or not?