• eWeek, Thursday, October 1, 2009 3 PM

Microsoft Bing's U.S. September search share fell to 8.5% from 9.6 percent in August, according to StatCounter. Meanwhile, Google's September share rose to 80% from 77.8% in July. EWeek speculates that the new stats may simply be a sign that the honeymoon is over, and that users are returning to Google. Yet, the findings clash with estimates from Nielsen, comScore and HitWise, all of whom found that Bing continued to post gains at the expense of Google, Yahoo or AOL in August. For the record, Yahoo, with whom Microsoft is hoping to partner with in search to close the gap on Google, also declined, to 9.4% in September from 10.5% in August, according to StatCounter.

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