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Microsoft deal may have promoted additional searches on Bing as users check out for themselves the new service.Well need to continue to monitor their progress but the current trends are boding well for Microsoft, says Merickel.Compete data shows that unique visitors to Bing have pretty much leveled off between June and July. There is slight growth, but nothing too impressive based on this graphTheres no question that Bing has been building buzz, and appears to be on the way to becoming much more successful than its predecessor, Live Search. Once Bing takes over Yahoo, that will be increased dramatically as well. As I wrote earlier, however, Bing better have some real realtime search functionality up its sleeve, at least in some capacity, as it appears that Google is headed more in that direction with its new Caffeine update.