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According to Comscore, Google accounted for two thirds of the 131 billion searches conducted in December 2009. Overall there was an increase in searches (across all engines) by 46%. Yandex had the greated increase overall compared to last year, followed by eBay, Bing and Google.
Google Sites ranked as the top search property worldwide with 87.8 billion searches in December, or 66.8 percent of the global search market. Google Sites achieved a 58-percent increase in search query volume over the past year. Yahoo! Sites ranked second globally with 9.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8.5 billion searches (up 7 percent). Microsoft Sites saw the greatest gains among the top five properties, growing 70 percent to 4.1 billion searches, on the strength of its successful introduction of new search engine Bing. Russian search engine Yandex also achieved considerable gains, growing 91 percent to 1.9 billion searches.
| Top 10 Search Properties by Searches Conducted December 2009 vs. December 2008 Total Worldwide, Age 15+ – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Dec-2008 | Dec-2009 | Percent Change | |
| Worldwide | 89,708 | 131,354 | 46% |
| Google Sites | 55,638 | 87,809 | 58% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 8,389 | 9,444 | 13% |
| Baidu.com Inc. | 7,963 | 8,534 | 7% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,403 | 4,094 | 70% |
| eBay | 1,327 | 2,102 | 58% |
| NHN Corporation | 1,892 | 2,069 | 9% |
| Yandex | 992 | 1,892 | 91% |
| Facebook.com | 1,023 | 1,572 | 54% |
| Ask Network | 1,053 | 1,507 | 43% |
| Alibaba.com Corporation | 1,118 | 1,102 | -1% |
