New Bing attracts new Edge users – who then use Google Search – Search Engine Land

People who rushed to download the Microsoft Edge browser to try out the New Bing Chat experience – ironically – ended up using Google Search on Edge, according to new data from enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge.

Why we care. We’re watching closely for any data indicating whether the New Bing is starting to chip away at Google’s massive lead in search. What we see here is more evidence that Microsoft is driving more traffic to sites – in a twist, they’re doing it via Edge instead of Bing.

What the data shows. Google fairly consistently sent more than 3 million visits to websites since the start of 2023. Starting around Feb. 19, however, there is a noticeable uptick in Google traffic coming from the Edge browser. That number grew to roughly 3.7 million visits by the week of March 12.

Meanwhile, traffic from Bing in Edge also showed some growth since the start of the year (from just over 5 million to about 5.5 million as of the week of March 12), but the data seems to show that as…

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiSWh0dHBzOi8vc2VhcmNoZW5naW5lbGFuZC5jb20vYmluZy12cy1nb29nbGUtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWVkZ2UtdHJhZmZpYy0zOTUyMjPSAQA?oc=5

The post New Bing attracts new Edge users – who then use Google Search – Search Engine Land first appeared on SEO, Marketing and Social News | OneSEOCompany.com.

source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2023/04/04/new-bing-attracts-new-edge-users-who-then-use-google-search-search-engine-land_2023040443047.html

Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.