It has been nearly a 12 months now since Microsoft launched Bing Chat (now generally known as Copilot) and Bing’s market share has solely grown lower than 1% in accordance with StatCounter. Most of you will not be stunned, since our ballot shared shortly after Bing Chat launched had most of you considering Bing will not achieve that a lot market share from this function.
Bloomberg reported on the StatCounter information, saying, “However Microsoft’s search engine ended 2023 with simply 3.4% of the worldwide search market, in accordance with information analytics agency StatCounter, up lower than 1 share level because the ChatGPT announcement.”
They shared this chart:
Right here is the uncooked chart and information from StatCounter:
I like the quote on the prime of the Bloomberg piece:
“The complete search class is now going by way of a sea change,” Chief Govt Officer Satya Nadella stated on the time. “That chance comes only a few instances.”
Do not get me mistaken, I used to be tremendous impressed with the launch and the options however as I used it, I discovered myself going again to seek for most of what I need.
It’s no shock why Bing will not share Bing Chat information inside Bing Webmaster Instruments.
It’s only a disgrace however like I stated, I do not assume most of you’re stunned. 60% of you thought that this may not result in greater than 5% market share progress. Right here is that ballot from a number of months in the past:
I’m disenchanted however perhaps Microsoft has one thing developing which may change this?
Discussion board dialogue at X.
