Sep 29, 2011 at 1:00pm ET by Matt McGee

Compete.com has weighed in with its US search engine market share statistics, and the results mirror what others have been reporting in recent months: small, slow losses in Google's market share, and correspondingly slow gains for Bing. According to Compete's research, Google-powered search (which includes both Google and AOL) had 68.3% of the US market in August, down from 69% in July. Bing-powered search -- Bing and Yahoo combined -- held 31.7% of the market in August, up from 31% in July. Compete's chart also shows continued rises in search activity, with overall query volume up 1 [...]

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Compete Confirms Bing Gains

Mar 16, 2011 at 1:24pm ET by Greg Sterling

Last week both comScore and Hitwise showed gains for Bing. Meanwhile Google was off 2% according to both metrics firms. Today Compete released data that confirm the direction of the earlier figures: Bing up, Google off slightly: According to Compete, both Google and Yahoo very modestly lost share, AOL and Ask were flat while Bing gained: All engines except Bing experienced a decline in unique visitors in February, with Bing seeing a 7.6% increase in UVs MOM Bing Powered engines (Yahoo! and Bing) continued to increase its share of market to 30.8% Bing continues to show increment [...]

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Google, Bing Up While AOL Hits All-Time Low: comScore December Search Data

Jan 14, 2011 at 12:10pm ET by Greg Sterling

Ahead of their official release, financial analysts released comScore's December search data. Total search query volume, minus "contextual search" (slideshows), was reportedly up 24 percent vs. a year ago for a total of 18.2 billion monthly queries. Here are the market share figures: Google -- 66.6 percent (record high for Google in comScore's numbers) Yahoo -- 16 percent (down from 16.4 percent in Nov) Bing -- 12.0 (up from 11.8 percent in November) Ask -- 3.5 percent (down slightly) AOL -- 1.9 percent (an historic low) None of these figures include mobile query volumes, which [...]

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When Losers Are Winners: How Google Can “Lose” Search Share & Yet Still Stomp Yahoo

May 11, 2010 at 6:51pm ET by Danny Sullivan

comScore's out with new search market share figures. Yahoo's up, but did it "game" its growth with new navigational changes? Gaming figures is nothing new. But even if Yahoo effectively did, it's the search volume -- the number of searches -- that people should care more about in deciding who's "winning" and "losing" when it comes to search. Hint: Google dominates. Below, a look at the importance of search volume plus some background on gaming stats and the complexities of comparing figures. Caveats To Live & Love I've been covering search share figures for a long time. A very long t [...]

Yahoo Top News Site, Google Second; People Spending More Time With Fewer Sites

Dec 24, 2009 at 11:22am ET by Greg Sterling

According to November comScore data (published by TechCrunch) Google News is the second largest online news property in the world in terms of traffic. Yahoo ranks as the top global news site. Here's the partial comScore list: Yahoo News Google News New York Times sites CNN China’s QQ.com BBC MSN In the US Yahoo still ranks as number one but Google News reportedly falls down the list below the traditional news domains, such as NY Times and CNN. However, over at Nielsen (via Editor & Publisher) the numbers appear to be quite different than the comScore data above -- espe [...]

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