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

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


iCrossing: Google’s Share Of Search Almost 77 Percent

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


Google Approaches 65% Market Share In Latest ComScore Survey

According to the latest comScore survey, Google's search market share climbed to just under 65% last month, and remains more than triple that of Yahoo, the second-place search engine. ComScore pegs Google with 64.9% of all searches conducted during September 2009, up from 64.6% in August. Yahoo dropped from August's 19.3% to 18.8% in September. And Bing, in third place, showed minor growth from 9.3% to 9.4%. Despite Google's small gains in market share, comScore says Google saw a slight drop in the number of searches -- but that could be due to September having one less day than Aug [...]

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


Google Served 10 Billion Video Views In August, Says ComScore

Years ago, McDonald's restaurants advertised how many burgers they had served right on the big sign at each location. And when it got too many to count, the signs changed to simply say, "Billions and billions served." YouTube is quickly reaching that same tipping point for online video views. According to comScore, Google/YouTube served up more than 10 billion video views in August -- the first time any video site has surpassed the 10 billion mark. Other firsts during the month of August? Online users watched more than 25 billion videos overall, an all-time high. And 161 million U.S. Intern [...]

Filed in: Google: YouTube & Video, Stats: comScore


India (Hearts) Google … Brazil (Hearts) It, Too

No one reading Search Engine Land should be surprised to hear stories about Google's dominance of the search landscape. But the degree to which Google dominates in some areas is sure to make you raise an eyebrow. Consider India and Brazil, two growing Internet markets. ComScore released some stunning numbers about what's happening in those two countries and how Google owns a lot of the online experience there. In Brazil, for example, about 30% of a person's online time is spent on a Google property. In India, it's about 29% of online time. For perspective, comScore says that the worldwid [...]

Filed in: Google: General, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Orkut, Google: YouTube & Video, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore


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