comScore: Google Breaks 65% Market Share But Did Bing Grow Share?

Nov 18, 2009 at 9:54am ET by Barry Schwartz

comScore released its October 2009 search share numbers and Google has passed 65% search market share, holding 65.4% share in October, up 0.5% from the previous month. comScore also claims that Microsoft Bing also gained 0.5% share, reaching 9.9%, while Yahoo dropped 0.8% to 18.0% from the previous month. Nielsen also released its October 2009 stats, showing Google has a 66.1% share, Yahoo has a 15.4% and Microsoft Bing has a 9.7% share. I was unable to find Nielsen's September report (did they publish one?) but I did find their August report which showed Bing had 10.7% share. In this ca [...]

Filed in: Stats: General, Stats: Size, Stats: comScore

Bing Gains Search Share In October: Experian Hitwise

Nov 11, 2009 at 2:42pm ET by Matt McGee

While Bing is happily rolling out new search features, Microsoft can also smile at the latest search engine market share report from Experian Hitwise. Google is still light years ahead of Yahoo, Bing, and Ask ... but Experian Hitwise shows Bing with a 7% increase during October, while both Google and Yahoo saw small drops in search share. Experian Hitwise also updates some stats related to search queries: "Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, increased 3 percent between October and September 2009. Searches of eight or more words inc [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: Popularity, Yahoo: Search

iCrossing: Google’s Share Of Search Almost 77 Percent

Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Greg Sterling

We received some interesting data from search agency iCrossing yesterday. The data show US search market share percentages and distribution quite different than the major traffic metrics firms. The company says its numbers are "based on a large representative sample of Fortune 1000 companies, across all major verticals," which use its search tracking tools. Accordingly the iCrossing data show US September natural search market share to be the following: Google 76.7 percent Bing (increasingly slightly from Aug to) 8.2 percent Yahoo (decreasing to) 11.1 percent AOL and Ask show "pre [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: Popularity, Stats: Size, Stats: comScore, Top News

The Myth Of Great Search Engine Results

Oct 23, 2009 at 6:54pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Too much time is often spent about the new features the various major search engines roll out or the latest deals they cut. Here at Search Engine Land, we can be as guilty of that as anyone. To correct it, I'll be spending more and more time highlighting poor quality search results that I encounter, in hopes of nudging the industry to improve things. Canaries In The Search Mine I've spoken and written for years that when it comes to search engines, I think there are two "canaries in the coal mine" that catch a whiff of something bad emanating from the search engines. The first a [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Stats: Relevancy, Top News

Pew: Almost 20 Percent of Internet Users Update Status With Twitter (Or Other Social Net)

Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Greg Sterling

Already widely reported from yesterday the Pew Internet & American Life almost 20 percent of US Internet users are on Twitter or updating their status with another social network: LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook. According to the report: Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service. Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Stats: General, Twitter

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