Sources say Google is claiming that Microsoft is stealing their search abilities and have had little influence on people’s search habits. It seems while Bing is growing, Yahoo and Google are both down a few percent as you can see in the chart above. Either way, it doesn’t look like many Google users are bothered by any of this because each of the services are still being used.

In today’s published announcement, Bing.com has gone from 10.60% market share in December 2010 up to 12.81% market share in the month of January 2011. That’s a significant increase of 21% month-to-month. Do you think the Android Samsung devices had something to do with that? In the same time Yahoo search was down four points. Overall Bing-powered search (which operates Yahoo! and Bing) was up from 25.77% to 27.44%, a total increase of 6%. In this day and age does this shock you?

Android is huge here in the USA and Google has pumped money out to be a default search partner with Apple, WebOS and of course Android. Do you see people using Bing more than the default search? Keep in mind these stats are from all searches (including desktop).

The Bing search engine is not only being used more but has also recently received a higher success rate in webpage clicks. Basically what this means is that 81% of searches that took place on both Yahoo and Bing resulted in the user actually clicking through to a website completely. Google’s success rate was quite a lot lower at 65%. Why do you think this is the case? Are Android users searching more and not actually clicking through?

Does this make a huge difference to you PPCGeekers? Who does a better job? Do you see Google losing grips on a dear market that they worked hard to conquer? Let’s discuss it down below and see who or what wins. Please keep it clean ok?

Source: neowin.net

**UPDATE** This issue is also being seen in Apple iOS, which to me seems like a way to blow a hole in the “It’s a Microsoft issue only.”  With Android being immue to this issue,  I think it will only be time till more sniffers find issues on other platforms like WebOS, Blackberry (maybe) and many others I believe. This update comes from here.

So we reported a while back ago about Extra Data Usage in Windows Phone 7 that we were going to report back once the “culprit” has been found. Well folks that seems to be today. Microsoft says that Yahoo Email is to blame for all the data usage. Now before we go to deep here let me just state there were VERY few people that seemed effected. It is and was an issue with the Email Client in which Yahoo/Microsoft agreed to fix in a few weeks… WHAT?!?! FEW WEEKS!?!

So what does this mean, who said what, and further more WHAT does that mean to ME? Well folks let’s break it down into terms I hope we can all understand – because let’s face it we are not geeky enough to always understand this stuff. Email servers come in multiple formats, POP, IMAP and Exchange are the most common. Yahoo happens to use IMAP, most of us already know that. The reason that the extra data usage took place was because of “mishandled extra data syncing”. What this really boils down is a LACK of communication between the client (WP7) and the server (Yahoo).

Yahoo has owned up to all issues saying they will fix it in the next few weeks with Microsoft’s help. This being said – it is sad that we as users have to wait till that update is fixed to be able to enjoy syncing with Yahoo to properly not drain our data and our wallets (if you go over your quota). This seems that the issue should be “lumped” in with hte other NoDo Update set to release Feburary time frame. Let’s just hope it really is included and it is sooner than later! Here are some steps to fix the issue as a work around. This was released by Microsoft.

• In the Start screen of Windows Phone 7, click on the arrow at the top right
• Choose “Settings” from the app list
• Choose “Email & Accounts”
• Choose “Yahoo! Mail”
• Click on the setting under “Download new content”
• Select a less frequent setting. If you are using the default setting (every 2 hours), change this setting to ‘manually’
• Click on the setting under “Download email from”
• Select a shorter time range. If you are using the default setting (the last 2 weeks), change this setting to ‘the last 7 days’

Now for Yahoo’s response to all this, yes folks big surprise is that we see finger pointing. Yahoo says that Microsoft is to blame. That it is their IMAP client on the phone that is causing the issue. That they have ten’s of millions of users on all other paltforms and that it does not have issues there – that this is really an OS specific problem and OS fix.

Now I am not defending any point – but I think that instead of pointing fingers at each other they need to get their acts together fix the issue and be happy. It is not who is at fault but rather the customers that are seeing a huge bill at the end of the month. So a warning to you people using Yahoo Email – and syncing to Windows Phone 7 – start watching your bill – and if you are affected do the settings up there to help lessen the blow to your pocket. But people please tell me what you think below in the comments. Does it matter really whose fault it is? Does it really even matter? Should this get “lumped” in with the update of NoDo; or should it be seperate update sooner? Tell us fellow Geeks – we want to hear it all – raves, rants, and thoughts on the issue.

Source: pocketnow.com & wmpoweruser.com & everythingWM.com