[jacquesm]

That's good for BING, only 52% to go. (well, actually more like 26% to achieve parity).

I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time.

Bing growing 30% per year and two percent per month means that they're already flattening out though.

In the article they note that since BING now powers Yahoo! search since August that BING actually has a marketshare that is roughly 26% instead of the 14% it has on its own domain.

[jonknee]

> I don't see how google can go up 1% / month and go up 1% / year at the same time.

That would work if they hadn't grown in the previous 11 months. Unless I'm reading it wrong, which is always a possibility.

[jacquesm]

On a table listed in 1/10th of a percent I find that unlikely.

[awakeasleep]

Does anyone else think it's weird that we make up artificial goals for some company, so we feel like we can tell it what to do or make a comment?

Like here we're talking about the assumption that Bing wants to knock google out of search or something, rather than have a successful, competitive product. Who says that's their plan?

I find myself doing this same thing.

[jacquesm]

Microsoft is 'on the record' for targeting Google with BING, in fact they specified during the launch that BING was specifically created to challenge google.