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MarTech » Performance Marketing » Is Yahoo Stealing Mobile Search Share From Bing?

Is Yahoo Stealing Mobile Search Share From Bing?

The company is staking its claim on mobile search, which was left off the table in the search alliance deal with Microsoft.

Ginny Marvin on February 12, 2015 at 9:53 am

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Last year, Yahoo began striking out on its own in mobile paid search, marking Yahoo’s first divergence from its search alliance partnership with Microsoft’s Bing Ads.

Though Yahoo’s mobile paid search program is still in relative infancy, new data suggest it is starting to take share from its search alliance partner by transitioning traffic previously served by Bing Ads.

Yahoo began serving search ads to mobile traffic on its own properties through its marketplace for native and mobile search ads, Yahoo Gemini, which launched in February. The rate at which the company has been transitioning ads traffic from Bing Ads to Gemini escalated significantly in the second half of last year according to digital marketing firm RKG.

Yahoo can go after this segment on its own without violating terms of the deal because mobile search was not part of the search alliance deal.

On Wednesday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference that she is in talks with Microsoft about ways to change the search alliance deal they entered into nearly five years ago, according to USA Today.

To see RKG’s data and learn more about the impact of Yahoo’s moves in mobile search and what it might signal for the future of Yahoo’s search business and the search alliance, see our earlier in-depth coverage at Search Engine Land: Yahoo Gemini Gaining Mobile Search Share, But Not At Google’s Expense, Yet


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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