Microsoft's Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google. According to statistics released on Wednesday by comScore Inc., Bing and Microsoft's other websites fielded 2.75 billion search requests in the U.S. during December, beating Yahoo for the first time. Bing's December search volume translated into a 15.1% share of U.S. search traffic, while Yahoo had 2.65 billion search requests, which amounted to a 14.5% share.

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Google and Mozilla have struck a deal to extend their search agreement for another three years. Under the terms of the new agreement, Google will pay Mozilla $300 million per year to be Mozilla Firefox's default search browser. Sources said the total amount of $1 billion was the minimum revenue guarantee for delivering search queries garnered from consumers using Firefox. Google’s main rival in the bid was Microsoft’s Bing search service.

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According to ComScore, Microsoft's Bing has reached 15 percent market share at the expense of Google and Yahoo. Bing's share rose from 14.8% in October to 15% through November, while Google dipped from 65.6% in October to 65.4% in November. Bing's increasing market share may is probably not a cause for concern for Google, who has consistently maintained 64% -66% market share.

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According to a new study by StatCounter, Chrome's market share in the global browser market rose to 24% in the last weeks of November and in the first week of December. Meanwhile Microsoft's Internet Explorer share was at 22.9%. This is a significant accomplishment for Google, as Microsoft usually maintains the majority share.

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