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Alexa reports rapid increase for Bing and a rapid decline for Google:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com#

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#

I am curious what caused this.

IMO A lot of that decline/increase is probably where Bing has bought integration into an existing product. I've seen it a lot lately, "powered by Bing" and the like, but I've not seen a single person actually type Bing into the address bar. It seems to me that this increase is coming from those people who don't know/care and are just being directed to Bing, not making a concious choice of which search engine to use.

I believe buying market share is a common pattern for Microsoft.

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