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Bing Up 5% in December, Google Down 1%

January 14, 2011 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise has released their search market share numbers for the month of December 2010, highlights from their press release below:

Bing-powered search received 25.77 percent of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 15.17 percent and 10.60 percent, respectively.
Google accounted for 69.67 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 1, 2011.
Bing and Yahoo! Search achieved the highest success rates in December 2010, meaning that for both search engines, 81 percent of searches executed resulted in a visit to a Website.

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Bing Powered Search Receives 25.3% of All Searches in November

December 16, 2010 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

The following data is from Experian Hitwise featuring search engine user behavior and the top 5 retail sites receiving traffic from paid search for the month of November. Please source the data to Experian Hitwise.

November 2010 Search Engine Quick Stats:

Bing-powered search received 25.27% of all searches.
Google receives 70% of all searches
81% of searches executed from Yahoo! Search & Bing resulted in a visit to a Website, receiving the the highest success rate across search engines.
Amazon is the top 500 retail site receiving paid search traffic, capturing 7.98% for the four weeks ending Nov. 27

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Bing Up 7% From May, Google Down 1%

July 9, 2010 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.65 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 26, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask received 14.37 percent, 9.85 percent and 2.19 percent, respectively. The remaining 70 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.94 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers
Domain	May 2010	June 2010	Month-over-month percentage change
www.google.com	72.17%	71.65%	-1%
search.yahoo.com	14.43%	14.37%	-0%
www.bing.com*	9.23%	9.85%	7%
www.ask.com	2.14%	2.19%	2%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending May 29, 2010 and June 26, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only.
*This includes executed searches on Bing.com but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
Source: Experian Hitwise

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Bing Gains 5% Share in January 2010

February 11, 2010 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.49 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 31, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.37 percent and 2.64 percent, respectively. The remaining 65 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.93 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers
Domain	December 2009	January 2010	Month-over-month percentage change
www.google.com	72.25%	71.49%	-1%
search.yahoo.com	14.83%	14.57%	-2%
www.bing.com*	8.92%	9.37%	5%
www.ask.com	2.54%	2.64%	4%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Jan. 2, 2010, and Jan. 31, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only.
*This includes executed searches on Bing.com but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
Source: Experian Hitwise

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Google Accounts for 67.3% of Searches in December

January 14, 2010 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Nielsen has released it’s monthly search share report for December 2009. Of the 9.9 billion searches conducted in the US, Google accounted for 67.3%, Yahoo: 14.4% and Bing: 9.9%. There was an estimated 6.7 billion searches conducted on Google alone.

Top 10 Search Providers for December 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Rank	Provider	Searches (000)	Share of Searches
	All Search	9,945,576	100.0%
1	Google Search	6,697,223	67.3%
2	Yahoo! Search	1,434,866	14.4%
3	MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search	986,247	9.9%
4	AOL Search	247,421	2.5%
5	Ask.com Search	168,674	1.7%
6	My Web Search	99,474	1.0%
7	Comcast Search	50,325	0.5%
8	NexTag Search	41,393	0.4%
9	BizRate Search	31,612	0.3%
10	Yellow Pages Search	27,914	0.3%
Source: The Nielsen Company

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Yahoo and Bing Down in November, Google Up

December 10, 2009 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.57 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Nov. 28, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 15.39 percent, 9.34 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.07 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider
Domain	October 2009	November 2009	Month-over-month percentage change
www.google.com	70.60%	71.57%	1%
search.yahoo.com	16.14%	15.39%	-5%
www.bing.com	9.57%	9.34%	-2%
www.ask.com	2.62%	2.65%	1%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Nov. 28, 2009, and Oct. 31, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.
*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
Source: Experian Hitwise

Filed Under: Bing, HitWise, Yahoo

Bing Down 5%, Google & Ask Up – Hitwise

October 7, 2009 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.08 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.38 percent, 8.96 percent and 2.56 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.04 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider
Domain	August 2009	September 2009	Month-over-month percent change
www.google.com	70.24%	71.08%	1%
search.yahoo.com	16.96%	16.38%	-3%
www.bing.com*	9.48%	8.96%	-5%
www.ask.com	2.37%	2.56%	8%