New Bing attracts new Edge customers – who then use Google Search

Individuals who rushed to obtain the Microsoft Edge browser to check out the New Bing Chat expertise – sarcastically – ended up utilizing Google Search on Edge, based on new knowledge from enterprise website positioning platform BrightEdge.

Why we care. We’re watching carefully for any knowledge indicating whether or not the New Bing is beginning to chip away at Google’s large lead in search. What we see right here is extra proof that Microsoft is driving extra site visitors to websites – in a twist, they’re doing it by way of Edge as a substitute of Bing.

What the info reveals. Google pretty persistently despatched greater than 3 million visits to web sites because the begin of 2023. Beginning round Feb. 19, nevertheless, there’s a noticeable uptick in Google site visitors coming from the Edge browser. That quantity grew to roughly 3.7 million visits by the week of March 12.

In the meantime, site visitors from Bing in Edge additionally confirmed some development because the begin of the 12 months (from simply over 5 million to about 5.5 million as of the week of March 12), however the knowledge appears to indicate that as extra site visitors began coming from Google in Edge, much less got here from Bing in Edge.

For its evaluation, BrightEdge examined greater than 600,000 million visits to web sites throughout all main industries, evaluating U.S. site visitors from Google and Bing, by browser (Chrome vs. Edge).

Google features an Edge. Greater than 1 million individuals signed up inside the first 48 hours to check out the brand new Bing in February, however ended up caught on a waitlist, in some instances for weeks.

So all these individuals who downloaded Edge caught with it. However when it got here to looking, somewhat than utilizing Bing, many began utilizing Google Search on Edge.

One huge query we might be higher capable of reply months from now’s whether or not limiting the mixing of GPT-4 into Bing Chat solely on the Edge browser was a missed alternative. We simply don’t have that knowledge but.

“It’s nonetheless early to foretell how Google and Bing will evolve and if there’s a vital market dominance shift,” mentioned Lemuel Park, BrightEdge co-founder and CTO. “Nonetheless, Bing will undoubtedly improve in recognition as increasingly more individuals experiment with its new capabilities.”

Extra knowledge. The brand new Bing making (small) features on Google Search has some extra knowledge, together with web page visits on Bing rising 15.8% and Bing turning into a extra vital referral supply for some publishers.