steveb - 3:34 am on Aug 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

"That's a fact."

LOLOL

"It's entirely non-logical to assume that Bing will not take a considerable share of search"

That almost as illogical as the "fact" statement.

EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS got them .9 more market share. That is what is called a "fact". Thus far, this is a fail of epic proportions. they could do well in the future, but as of today they spent a fortune and 1) have lost traffic since their peak, and 2) grown by less than 1% of market share after an 80 million dollar ad buy.

And when Yahoo starts using Bing, that's a totally different issue. The thing to compare there is the end Yahoo numbers to the new Yahoo numbers.