Microsoft's much-ballyhooed search engine saw its launch last month, and in the intervening time has been collecting accolades for its generally strong function and ability to find adult videos. Though to be fair, the latter accolades have mostly come from the adult industry.
Now according to the StatCounter traffic analysis service, Bing is already set to supplant perennial second-fiddle Yahoo as the second most popular search engine in the land.
Here's the current tally: Bing attracts about 13 percent of search traffic, while Yahoo lags behind with 10. Meanwhile, tech giant Google still commands the remaining three-quarters of search traffic.
Nonetheless, Bing drew praise from leading tech blog TechCrunch.com.
"In any event, while Google shouldn’t be particularly worried about losing its dominance on the search market yet, the other players in the field better be watching Bing’s progress very closely," analyst Robin Wauters said. "Microsoft is doing it right, and users are noticing, too."
Bing also caught the attention of the adult industry for its ability to find and organize adult videos into easily playable thumbnail lists. In addition, Microsoft rolled out the porn-specific domain Explicit.Bing.net to give network administrators better control over how much adult content they want to see in their search results.
But adult industry member Media of ArchiveCash.com isn't so happy about Bing's ascendance.
"I think that Microsoft either knowingly, or even possibly unknowingly created a giant, illegal tube site with instant watch technology," he told XBIZ, later adding, "They're messing with peoples property rights and they are operating under the protection of a search engine umbrella with no 2257 or copyright restrictions. If it catches on more than it already has, it will cost us all a lot more money down the road, even more than we're already seeing from the content thieves and rampant downloading and sharing that we already deal with day to day."