Is Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, finally making a dent in Google’s dominance?  While overall I have read that they are making a little progress, I have noticed some substantial changes in my blog statistics that I’m jokingly calling the “Bing of Life” attack (as to the Ping of Death).  In fact Microsoft has passed Google for the top spot in referrals.

Although Microsoft doesn’t make up the biggest share of search engine traffic the percentage is close to 40%.  They used to only have 5 to 10% share.

So Microsoft is getting the numbers but how about the quality?  When I compare the search engine phrases, these results still favor Google.  The Bing search phrases appear to be one word items like Server and Deploy.  The Google ones are what I would expect visitors to be searching for to get to my site.  Here’s the comparison:

Google - Phrases
csla.net example
csla validation 
csla 3.6 codesmith
csla samples 
CSLA.Net 
csla templates 
"The workspace" "already exists on computer"
vsp1030
csla examples
TestToolsTask

Microsoft Network - Phrases
server 
deploy
smart
april
hostbridge
generation
build
sessions

I don’t get enough traffic to my blog to know if these results are scale to larger sites, but I thought it was interesting anyway.  If you have a website or blog, are you seeing any kind of traffic or percentage increase from Microsoft’s Bing?

Mike