See Bing's Breakout Week In Charts As Microsoft Taps New ChatGPT Technology To Go After Google's Search Lead

• On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled an updated Bing search engine based on ChatGPT technology.
• CEO Satya Nadella is committed to leading Google's search dominance.
• Check out these charts below to see how well the new Bing is doing.

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It's been a big week for Bing. relatively

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled an updated Bing search engine based on ChatGPT technology. OpenAI chatbots have taken the world by storm since their launch in late November, and Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest backer, is riding that wave of enthusiasm to challenge Google's dominant lead in the search market.

Microsoft president Yusuf Mahdi tweeted that more than 1 million people had joined Bing's preview queue within 48 hours.

According to Apptopia, Apple's Bing app for iOS fell from No. 142 on Feb. 7 to No. 4 on Feb. 9. Bing app downloads rose to 102,952 on February 9, well above the previous week's average of about 12,000 downloads per day. Data from Apptopia shows that downloads of Google's apps were between 300,000 and 320,000 per day during the same period.

"The app launched in 2009 (I didn't realize Bing was around since then), but it had its biggest download day ever," wrote Adam Blacker, director of content and communications, on Friday. Aptopia "While we expect installs to increase as more people get into AI-powered search, it's still 32% of Google search installs."

Bing's daily active users rose to 572,965 on February 9, up from about 380,000 the previous day. It's still far from Google. According to Apptopia, the Google app had about 22.8 million daily active users in the same week.

The Bing website received 30.3 million hits on February 7, the day Microsoft revealed the AI-powered update and invited users to test it and join the waiting list. The next day, Sameweb estimated that 31.7 million hits had occurred. That compares to request traffic of 27 to 29 million visits per day the previous day. Traffic on February 8 was about 15% higher than the daily average for the previous six months.

Ultimately, it's about getting a bigger share of the highly profitable search engine market. We checked with Statcounter, which provides data on this industry, and Bing's numbers are staggering.

As of February 9, Google had 93.21% of the global search engine market. Statcounter estimates Bing had 3.05%.

"So far there has been no change in search shares," Statcounter CEO Odhan Kulen told Insider.

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