Here we have the search data for September from Experian Hitwise showing that Google accounted for 71.08% of all U.S. searches. Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com accounted for, 8.96%, 16.38% and 2.56% respectively.
The search data was culled from all searches conducted for four weeks in September ending Oct. 3, 2009.
Google’s search data increased by 1% from August 2009, while both Bing and Yahoo suffered a decrease of -5% and -3% percent.
Interestingly, Ask.com’s share of U.S. searches is a big 8% leap from its August share. And this might continue to increase especially with the Ask Deals service which Ask.com blended with its search engine.
Another interesting thing to note is the fact that despite the decrease in their search shares, combining Bing and Yahoo’s data still falls a little less than 50% of Google searches. The declining trend will certainly not help Bing and Yahoo to reach Google’s level. In addition, Bing’s data include searches made on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but excluding those searches made on Club.Live.com.
Congrats Google, but I don’t think it is really good news for webmasters, as webmasters, we need more monsters like Google in the search engine market, so Google can’t dominate our fate, we’ll have more chance to live.
I think Bing has potential to take a bigger share in the future, and it must be the strongest competitor of Google.
What do you think?
After all the hype about Bing – especially in the UK – it seems that the new search engine has reached somewhat of a plateau.
Plateau….yes, I’d agree here @Oscar…..from our own client stats we did see a bit of a “honeymoon” period for a few first months from BING….but that’s faded quite a bit – more than the -5% shown above for us – in the past 2 weeks alone…
Google rules, it still appears!
:-)
Jim
But this excludes searches done on ebay, facebook and myspace. I think ebay matches google for searches. And those segments are growing and are over half of all traffic.
I wonder if the Microsoft Ad $’s are beginning to fade?
I always knew Google had the major share of the market but I always thought it was more like 50-60% not 71% that is huge. I as well wish another search engine would be able to take more of a share in the Search Engine market. It is not good when something becomes monopolized. Anyways koodos to Google for being innovative.
It is going to be difficult for Bing to take down Google. Especially because users don’t even need to go to the Google homepage to begin their searches. Most users probably don’t even think about which search engine they will use – Google is right there.
- Jack
domusinc.blogspot.com
About time the US caught up with the UK;)