Microsoft’s new search engine Bing continues to show growth in search activity. Data from comScore shows that Bing has climbed up to 12.1 percent from 9.1 percent share of search result pages in the U.S. during the work week of 8-12 June. Microsoft’s average daily penetration among US searchers also increased by three percentage to 16.7 per cent during the week.

“It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week,” said Mike Hurt, comScore senior vice president. “These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.”

Bing replaces MSN Live Search. It went fully online on June 3, 2009. Microsoft describes Bing as a ‘Decision Engine’ aimed at helping people make smart buying decisions, plan trips, research health topics or find local businesses. I am still with Google, but I must add that Bing is also not bad. Some search results returned by Bing surprised me and some made me laugh! The image search is good, but news search is nothing when we compare it to Google News. Are you using Bing? What you think about it’s search results? Are they better than Google? Feel free to add your own view.