by Andrew Redfern @ 19th June 2009 9:47 am

Just two weeks after Microsoft dramatic rebrand of the Live Search product to Bing, Microsoft have secured second place in the UK as the most popular search network. Research by Hitwise the internet monitoring research group shows that while Google is still the most dominant by far with 85.6%, Bing replaced Yahoo as the third most popular with 3.11% of UK searches.

At 3.11% Google need not worry just yet, but speculators predict that this may be the start of a more balanced search market.

Hitwise- Period Ending 13/06/2009

Rank Website Visits

1. Google UK 64.85%
2. Google 15.54%
3. Google UK Image Search 4.77%
4. Bing 3.11%
5. Yahoo! Search - UK & Ireland 2.24%
6. Ask.com UK 1.58%
7. Google Image Search 0.70%
8. Ask.com 0.55%
9. Yahoo! Search 0.38%
10. Google Poland 0.35%

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