Bing Gains Search Share In October: Experian Hitwise

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

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 Passes 71% Market Share In Latest Hitwise Survey

Google accounted for more than 71% of US searches in September, according to the latest Hitwise survey. While Google's market share continues to rise slowly, both Yahoo and Bing lost ground in September -- down 3% and 5%, respectively. [...]

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


Has Bing’s Growth Stalled?

Since it's launch Bing has steadily been inching up in market share, conveying the impression that Google has a bona fide competitor on its hands. Yesterday, however, data from NetApplications and StatCounter reflect that Bing may have seen its first usage declines since the engine's launch several months ago. Before getting too excited one way or another, we must be cautious. There are monthly upticks and downturns. Before drawing any broader conclusions we'd need to see this confirmed by comScore, Hitwise, Nielsen, Compete -- in other words, a consensus view -- and then we'd need to look [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Stats: General, Stats: Popularity, Top News


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