Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says
The latest search engine stats from Nielsen bring good news for Bing, which now has more than 10% market share for the first time in … well, longer than I can remember. Nielsen says Bing captured 10.7% of all searches in August, up from 9.0% in July. Based on that jump, Nielsen says Bing is […]
Matt McGee on September 14, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
The latest search engine stats from Nielsen bring good news for Bing, which now has more than 10% market share for the first time in … well, longer than I can remember.
Nielsen says Bing captured 10.7% of all searches in August, up from 9.0% in July. Based on that jump, Nielsen says Bing is the fastest growing search provide in its Top 10. Google remains a distant number one with almost 65% market share in Nielsen’s survey. Nielsen’s numbers are included below.
Top 10 Search Providers for August 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) +------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+ | Provider | Searches | M-O-M % | Share of | | | (000) | Growth | Searches | +------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+ | Total | 10,812,734 | 2.9% | 100.0% | | Google Search | 6,986,580 | 2.6% | 64.6% | | Yahoo! Search | 1,726,060 | -4.2% | 16.0% | | MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search | 1,156,415 | 22.1% | 10.7% | | AOL Search | 333,231 | 1.8% | 3.1% | | Ask.com Search | 186,270 | 2.9% | 1.7% | | My Web Search | 128,432 | 0.5% | 1.2% | | Comcast Search | 50,328 | -21.6% | 0.5% | | Yellow Pages Search | 37,923 | 2.7% | 0.4% | | NexTag Search | 31,830 | 0.4% | 0.3% | | Local.com Search | 16,314 | 2.9% | 0.2% | +------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+ Source: Nielsen MegaView Search
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