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Figures from comscore show that Bing is up 0.5% to 8.9% of US searches in July 2009 over its June 8.4% score. However th8.9% is flat with Microsoft MSN / Live search from the previous year. On 19th August 2009 Bing's Alexa.com rank was 21

Google is down down 0.3 percent at 64.7 percent of searches compared to 65 percent in June 2009. However, in July last year, Google's share of searches was only 61.9 percent so that's up 2.8%. On 19th August 2009 Google's Alexa rank was no 1. Four of its regional sites (India, Germany, France and UK were also in the top 20)

It's Googles new partner Yahoo that has seen the biggest drop over the last year from 20.5% in July 2008 to 19.3% in July 2009. Yahoo has also dropped from its long time position of Alexa no 1 to no 2

Googles UK performance is much higher accounting for over 80% with Yahoo and Bing only accounting for about 5% each

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