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Google Top Worldwide Search Engine; Baidu Beats Microsoft

Danny Sullivan on October 10, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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comScore has released new figures looking at the most popular search engines
worldwide. Google tops the list, with nearly five times as many searches as
nearest competitor Yahoo. But the worldwide list does focus attention on some
non-US based search players like Baidu and NHN, which owns Korea’s Naver. It
also shows Asia-Pacific as the region with the most searchers and searches
happening.

Here’s the list, with figures rounded, showing the number of searches that
happened in August 2007 on each search network:

  1. Google Sites: 37.1 billion (5 billion at YouTube)
  2. Yahoo Sites: 8.5 billion
  3. Baidu.com: 3.3 billion
  4. Microsoft Sites: 2.2 billion
  5. NHN Corporation: 2.0 billion
  6. eBay:1.3 billion
  7. Time Warner Network [AOL]: 1.2 billion
  8. Ask Network: 743 million
  9. Fox Interactive Media: 683 million
  10. Lycos, Inc: 441 million

I find it odd that eBay is included in the list. Yes, people search on eBay,
but not in the same "mode" or general purpose that they do at a regular search
engine. It makes the list as being one of 50 worldwide properties where "search
activity" is observed — i.e., someone did a search of some type, according to my
reading. Also, of Google’s 37.1 billion, 5 billion came from eBay.

Also interesting is that Microsoft –which is seen in a war against Google —
again is shown as playing catch-up, not just against Google, but also Yahoo and
Chinese search powerhouse Baidu.

Worldwide, there were 61 billion searches. Here’s the breakdown by region:

Region

Unique Searchers

Searches

Searches
Per Searcher

Asia-Pacific
258 million

20.3 billion
78.7
Europe 210 million 17.8 billion 85.1
North America
206 million 16 billion 77.4
Latin America 50 million 4.8 billion
95.7
Middle East –
Africa
31 million 2.1 billion 69.8
Worldwide
754 million 61 billion 80.9

Highlights from the chart:

  • Asia-Pacific has both more unique searchers and actual searches happening.
    Of course, that region also likely has more people overall. Perhaps later
    I’ll do a look at the searchers versus overall population angle.
     
  • Latin American searchers do more searches per person than other markets,
    though no explanation of why is given

Also see a discussion on Techmeme
here.



About The Author

Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, MarTech Today and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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