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Canadian Search Market Share – April 2009


Last week Hitwise announced that Google search properties accounted for 80.17 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending April 25, 2009. MSN search properties, Yahoo! search properties and Ask search properties received 8.84 percent, 7.34 percent and 2.75 percent, respectively. The remaining 41 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1 percent of Canadian searches.


Percentage of Canadian searches among leading search engine providers

Domain


April 2009

Google search properties

80.17%

MSN search properties*

8.84%

Yahoo! search properties

7.34%

Ask search properties

2.75%

Note: Data is based on 12-week rolling periods (ending April 25, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 100,000 Canadian Internet users. Note that the percentages for the search properties include the .ca and .com domains.

*Includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com

Source: Hitwise, an Experian company

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