On June 4th, Microsoft had what it thought was a victory in the search engine arena. They topped Yahoo and became the 2nd most widely used search engine (for a day).

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Search Engine Market Share

We still don’t know if this is evidence that Bing is on its way to overtaking Yahoo completely, but surely the Yahoo execs are not keen on this development. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is claiming that Bing is just a fad, and will have no lasting impression on the search landscape, but we beg to differ. In our opinion, the failed attempt at a merger between Microsoft and Yahoo ended up being better for Microsoft - they have almost accomplished the same goals without the cost or anti-trust issues.