Microsoft sites up big in time spent online

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Microsoft may be having a slow hard slog trying to popularize its Bing search engine, but there's one online market where Microsoft is doing quite well.

A leading Web analytics firm said Friday that Microsoft's Web sites were the most popular with users on the Internet last month.

According to a new report released by comScore, Microsoft's sites, which include mega sites like Microsoft.com, portal MSN.com, and search engine Bing.com, garnered almost 15 percent of all time users spent online worldwide in September. That constitutes a jump of 43 percent from September 2008.