Early stats from Statcounter show Bing taking off in a big way in the United States. As of yesterday, Bing was at 16.28% marketshare while Yahoo! hung out at 10.22% marketshare. Meanwhile, Google's market share has dropped about 6 points from 78.07% to 71.99%. Of course, Bing has only been live since Monday . It could just be curiosity. But if people are truly liking Bing, these numbers will be corroborated by comScore and Nielsen data. If that's the case,

by Vera H-C Chan The dog ate my homework : Too elementary, insensitive to canines since it implies they don't respect intellectual achievement, and don't you have a file saved? My (fill-in close kin) died : Too macabre, and you're going to run out of family members pretty quick. If they don't disown you first. My file got corrupted : Hmmm. Subtle, and just on the right side of plausibility. Especially if you emailed said file to teacher or professor.

If this is any indication of the trend to come in the search engine market, it looks like Yahoo might be in serious trouble while Google may be slightly threaten. Bing is still in preview mode and yet it has made a significant impact in the search market trend already, even if it was only for one day. Data from StatCounter Global Stats showed that Bing has grabbed the second spot in search market share in both the U.S. and worldwide.

An interesting blog post on the Bing blog yesterday has some pretty interesting things to say about video search in particular and search technology in general. First, Bing's approach to indexing videos is unique and very well. I like the Smart Motion Previews feature and if you haven't played around with it I'd recommend that you conduct a couple of videos searches and preview the videos.

From its humble beginnings 11 years ago, DMOZ has grown to be the largest human-edited directory on the Web. Today, on the websites anniversary, we take a look at DMOZ's influence on the web. Before there were specialized search engines, like job seekers, there was DMOZ. Today, contributors still take the time to sort through web content and organize listings into helpful categories on a wide spectrum of topics.

Today, we're proud to celebrate the 37th annual World Environment Day with the world premiere of "Home," a documentary about the survival of our planet, from award-winning filmmaker Luc Besson and photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Not only does this film give us a glimpse of our planet from never-before-seen perspectives that demonstrate the urgency for more sustainable living, but it also marks the first time a global audience can watch a movie online, in movie theaters,

Posted by great scott! Local Search guru and author of the new Local Search Ranking Factors , David Mihm, stops by Whiteboard Studios to discuss how business owners can get listed in Google's Local Search Results. Despite how powerful local and geo-targeted search has become, only a tiny fraction of businesses actually claim and verify their listing with Google (via the Google Local Business Center ).

by Manoj Jasra Top 10 Social Networking and Blog Sites Ranked by Total Minutes for April 2009 and their Year-over-Year Percent Growth (U.S., Home and Work). Facebook and Twitter increase dramatically whereas MySpace sees a decrease in total minutes. Source Nielsen Online . Site Apr-08 Total Minutes (000) Apr-09 Total Minutes (000) Year-over-Year Percent Facebook 1,735,698 13,872,640 699 Myspace.com 7,254,645 4,973,919 -31 Blogger 448,710 582,683 30 Tagged.com 29,858 327,

Hard to believe, but it's already been 11 years since DMOZ launched back on June 5, 1998. In that time, it has grown to become the largest human-edited directory on the web thanks to the tens of thousands of dedicated volunteer editors who have collected, sorted and organized millions of websites into categories on topics ranging from Aerospace to Zoology (and just about everything in between).

We launched our new Payments Terms today to govern the purchases you make on Facebook, following a three-day period for notice and comment. We'd like to thank all of you who participated with comments last week. We read through all of your feedback, and the response to the new terms was overwhelmingly positive. In this case, the Payments Terms did not require a vote because of the limited number of concerns raised in comments.