It's the first-ever decision engine. From Microsoft." A Web traffic report last Friday from StatCounter said Bing twice passed Yahoo in usage in the United States in its first few weeks.

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Microsoft hopes it will juice up the traffic on its search engine, ultimately improving how much it can earn from click advertising.

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Early on, Davis says, much of the traffic to Lycos' search engine came from Yahoo!

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The company already has a standalone product-search service that specializes in "hard" goods such as electronics and draws traffic from the main search engine.

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