Google Passes 74% Market Share - Hitwise
| Manoj Jasra - Friday, July 10, 2009 2 Comments |
Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 74.04 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.19 percent, 5.25 percent and 3.15 percent, respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.36 percent of U.S. searches.
Searches among leading search engine providers | ||||
Domain | June 2008 | May 2009 | June 2009 | Year-over-year percent change |
www.google.com | 69.17% | 73.66% | 74.04% | 7% |
search.yahoo.com | 19.62% | 15.55% | 16.19% | -17% |
bing.com* | 5.46% | 5.64% | 5.25% | -4% |
www.ask.com | 4.05% | 3.81% | 3.15% | -22% |
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending June 27, 2009; May 30, 2009; and June 28, 2008) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. | ||||
*Includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. | ||||
Source: Hitwise, an Experian company | ||||
It's nice to see some numbers for that because just today someone was trying to convince me that Bing was more popular than Google. I knew that wasn't true, but I didn't have any data to back me up. Thanks for posting it!
This is not surprising news. We knew it had to be high compared to other search engines, but as the poster before me points out: It's good to have the numbers to back it up.