Microsoft’s Bing claims over 20% of US desktop searches

Google faces a real challenge from Microsoft's Bing in the US, but its dominance of global, European and UK search is almost uncontested

Microsoft's Bing search engine has captured more than 20% of the US desktop search market for the first time since it launched, leaving Google with 64.4%.

Bing was up 0.3 percentage points in March to 20.1%, while both Yahoo and Google fell 0.1 percentage points, according to the latest data from research firm comScore.