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Hitwise has released their search market share numbers for February 2011. Overall Google is down 2%, while Bing (including Yahoo) moved up 5%. Additional highlights below:
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Google accounted for 66.69% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Feb. 26, 2011.
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Bing-powered search comprised 28.48% of searches for the month, an increase of 4% vs. Jan 2011.
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Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 14.99% and 13.49%, respectively. Both engines grew 3% and 5%, respectively.
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The remaining 69 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis report accounted for 4.68% of U.S. searches.
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Yahoo! Search and Bing achieved the highest success rates in February 2011, more than 81 percent.
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Google increased its success rate to 65.80%
Google is certainly still the king of search. However, it's good to see that Bing continues to grow. Competition is good for the search engines. It forces them to work hard at providing good results.