Bing Searches up but Google Holds on to 67% of Global Search Share
A July 2009 analysis done by comScore, Inc revealed that 76.7 billion searches last month which equates to a 67.5% market share, could be attributed to Google. Yahoo ranked a distance second at 8.9 billion searches (7.8% share). Chinese engine Baidu placed third with 8 billion searches (7.0% share).
Overall, search websites saw an increase in activity when compared to figures from last year. I’m sure this correlates to increasing internet usage around the world.
Here are the numbers:
Search Volume by Region
The analysis proved that search behavior varied considerably by region. Among the five global regions comScore tracks, Europe accounted for the highest share of searches at 32.1%, followed by Asia Pacific (30.8%) and North America (22.1%).
