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Well, that didn't take long. Bing, Microsoft's three-year-old search engine, has officially edged out ahead of Yahoo, according to the latest data from ComScore. In December, Yahoo dropped 0.6 percentage points over the previous months, giving Microsoft a slight lead, despite the fact that Bing didn't grow that much during the same time period.

Bing now commands 15.1% of the search market, while Yahoo has dropped to 14.5%. It's not even a full percentage point, but this is the first time Yahoo has been ousted by Microsoft for that #2 slot behind Google.

It may take awhile to figure out if Google has alienated some of its long-term search fans with yesterday's launch of Your World. But if they did, Microsoft's Bing may be poised to pick up some of the castoffs.

Jon Mitchell has details on Your Way, but in a nutshell, the new service better integrates Google+ content into Google search. That could have some looking for more objective ways to search, while also raising the ire of some big Web players.

Microsoft announced enhancements to its Bing Maps, including a change to the algorithm that allows the service to process directions requests twice as fast and help drivers avoid traffic.

Those changes, along with a newly-awarded patent for a feature that allows Bing Maps to route pedestrians away from unsafe neighborhoods, suggest Mcirosoft is driving to surpass Google Maps, which has dominated the space since surpassing MapQuest in site traffic and queries in 2008.

It's not even three years old yet, but Microsoft's Bing search engine now has about the same share of the market as Yahoo, which has been around since 1995. Bing hit 15% of the search engine market in November, according to ComScore. Yahoo had 15.1%.

Both sites trail far behind Google, which holds onto more than 65% of the market. While that position isn't threatened by any other search engine, it's interesting to note how quickly Bing has risen in the last few years.

It appears that the U.S. government has resumed Operation In Our Sites, a program aimed at capturing counterfeit and pirated products online. Today a federal judge in Nevada ruled in favor of luxury goods maker Chanel in a battle against websites trafficking counterfeit luxury goods. The court can now seize all questionable domain names, transferring them to a US-based registrar GoDaddy. Wait, what?

Venkat Balasubramani writes about this bizarre case Eric Goldman's technology and law blog. He asks why the case was took place in Nevada, and asks why not one of the 228 websites were able to say something in their defense. It is unclear whether all of these sites are even registered in the United States.

After losing a tiny bit of market share earlier this year, comScore announced today that Google is gaining again in the U.S. search market. The results are slight, only a 0.3% gain, but they have to be disappointing for Microsoft's Bing team.

Google basically gained share back from Yahoo, which lost 0.3% from September. comScore reports Google with 65.6% of the market, Microsoft's sites (Bing) with 14.8% (a 0.1% gain over September), and Yahoo (powered by Bing) with 15.2%. AOL and Ask are also covered in comScore's coverage, with a mere 1.5% and 2.9% of the market, respectively.

Bing has updated its mobile app today, launching an HTML5 app that provides (more or less) the same experience across mobile platforms, whether on the native app or the website. The native apps for Android (for Verizon users here) and iOS now provide a new, Web-based HTML5 experience also available on m.bing.com.

The update adds a split view for maps and lists, making it easy to see the locations of search results. The Android version now features transit routing and real-time transit news, previously only available on Bing's mobile site. The iPhone version gets Bing's mobile Web video content, which launched on the Web version last month. The update also adds Bing Deals to the search experience, an interesting move that adds a revenue stream for Microsoft and a convenience for consumers.

Klout's algorithms have recently depressed scores for many users. Jux released an iPad app. All of this and more in today's Daily Wrap.

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Microsoft's search engine Bing today announced something it probably should have made available a long time ago: a new version of Firefox with Bing as the default search option in the search box and the Awesome Bar. Of course the download is optional and just for all you Bing lovers who sought an easy way to switch to Bing inside your Firefox instead of Google.

What does it mean for Google, Google's partnership with Firefox, Firefox, Chrome and Bing? Time will tell if it means anything and that's probably largely dependent on how far and wide such a custom browser gets used. It could be a good backup though in case Firefox's biggest revenue partner, Google, decided to focus all of its support on its own browser.

Facebook now offers an option to translate pages, including comments, into any language via a link that appears under public pages' posts. The feature works through Microsoft's Bing Translator, and is yet another example of Microsoft and Facebook teaming up to utilize the data-rich Facebook social graph.