Hitwise, a Web analytics firm, reported that Microsoft Bing fielded more searches in June, but it still lags far behind

and Yahoo. Bing lost market share in June even as it handled more search queries, according to Hitwise, showing the size of the hill Microsoft has to climb.

Google remained the overwhelming favorite among search engines with 74.04 percent of the market in June -- that's up about four-tenths percent since May and nearly 5 percent from a year ago.

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