Looks like Microsoft Bing is increasing its market share of the search market, be it one percentage point at a time. According to information released by web analytics company StatCounter, Bing's share of the US search market increase by 1%, up from 8.23 % to 9.14% in June 09.

Now that Bing powers Yahoo search, the combined market share of both Microsoft and Yahoo in July was 20.36 percent, up slightly from 19.27 percent in June. Google's lead shrank slightly from 78.48 percent in June to 77.54 percent in July.