Web analytics firm Compete claims Microsoft's Bing search engine grew from 8.7 percent in August to 8.8 percent in September, sparked by 25 billion queries. Bing users conducted an average of 5 searchers per day. However, Bing's sponsored link click average was 6.4 percent, beating even Google and Yahoo's average of 6 percent. Google paced the market per usual with a 72.6 percent share, growing 3 basis points and serving 9 billion searches for the month. Meanwhile, Bing is trying to gain share by improving its functionality, indexing Twitter tweets for real-time search. However, Google will do the same in a few months.
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