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High hopes resting on Bing

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco

Published: July 29 2009 21:03 | Last updated: July 29 2009 21:03

In a business all about market share, Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo has given it a bigger boost than all the innovation built into its rebranded Bing search engine ever could.

Yahoo’s share of searches is more than twice that of Microsoft – 17.2 per cent in June in the US, according to comScore, the research group, compared with 7 per cent for Microsoft.

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