Bing make up some ground in the US, whilst Google achieve near domination of UK search volume, reaching 90%in the latest search engine market share statistics.
The new YaBing partnership appears to be bearing some fruit over in the US. Last month the two engines combined to control a sizeable 26.6% of the entire search market, taking a 2.1% chunk out of Google’s lead. Bing was the biggest gainer, leaping from 9.9% up to 12.5%. Yahoo slipped 0.3% down to 14.1%. However, according to Nielsen’s latest statistics, Google is the biggest loser; slumping to a mere 65.2% of the search market from 67.3% in December [see: Search Engine Market Share Statistics – February 2010].
On this side of the pond, things have been a little more settled. Google have reinforced their market dominance by reaching 90% of the total UK searches. This represents a gain of just 0.32% since last month. Bing has suffered a slight slip, going from 3.07% down to 2.98%. Certainly nothing to be too concerned about though.
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Latest figures show that Google has continued its search engine market dominance, Bing has made small gains and Yahoo are spiralling into search oblivion.
Once again we take a look at the search activity of users both sides of the pond to gauge how the search engine market is developing. Since our last report in November [see: Search Engine Market Share Statistics - November 2009], Google have continued to strengthen their vice-like grip on the industry whilst Bing have been picking up some of Yahoo’s deserters.
Google now control over two thirds of the U.S. market, extending their share from 65.4% in October up to 67.3% two months later (statistics courtesy of Nielsen). Here, the search giant is now just shy of a 90% share, being the engine of choice for 89.68% of all searches, which is in itself a 0.94% leap (figures from Hitwise). But for all these gains there have to be losses, and unfortunately for Yahoo! they have been the hardest hit.
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Each month the statistics for search engine usage are published for the world to digest and reflect upon. Whilst the numbers may only marginally fluctuate from month to month, the outright leader always remains the same – Google.
Internationally Google dominates search. According to the latest figures, supplied by ComScore, they have secured almost two thirds of the US market, weighing in with 65.4% of the combined 13.8 billion unique searches. Yahoo achieved only a quarter of that, with a diminished share of 18% whilst a resurgent Bing fell just short of double figures with 9.9%. The rest, which includes AOL and Ask, account for the remaining 6.70%.
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At Impact Media we believe the most important search engines are the ones that deliver the most traffic and this changes from country to country but for the UK and USA the big 3 are the same. So to highlight exactly how they compare to one another, at least in terms of search volume, we’ve taken a look at the top search engine share.
Google, Yahoo and MSN are the big 3 in question and control one big slice of the internet traffic, approximately 91% of all UK and 93.4% of the USA search engine traffic.
UK Search Engine Share:
USA Search Engine Share:
At Impact Media we offer the real deal and optimise website’s for the main 3 search engines so that you get quality relevant traffic to your website.
Bottom line, if your not in the top 3 search engines you are missing out on nearly all natural search enquires.
(Statistics from may 2006 Source: Hitwise)
