Microsoft's Bing continues to show strength as comScore Inc. is set to report this afternoon that the new search engine increased its share of the competitive market by 4.5% between July and August. Bing held a 9.3% share of the market at the end of August to hold third place, according to comScore.

And comScore is reporting that the share held by market leader Google slipped 0.1% to hold 64.6% of the market at the end of last month.

Meanwhile, comScore reports that Yahoo maintained its second-place spot in the search business with a solid 19.3% share. AOL's share dropped an unspecified amount to 3% of the market.

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