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 […]
Hitwise reported new search market-share numbers yesterday and this morning financial analysts are offering an early peak at comScore’s February search share numbers. I’ll start with comScore for February (see update below): Google: 65.4 percent Yahoo: 16.1 percent Bing: 13.6 percent Ask: 3.3 percent AOL: 1.7 percent Here are the official January comScore data: Bing […]
Happy new year to you, Bing: According to the latest comScore survey, you experienced a 13% rise in search queries during January. Search activity was up on Google and Yahoo, too, but Bing’s activity rose more than triple those two. In terms of overall market share, Bing also posted the only gain during January — […]
Bing was the big gainer in year-over-year search activity, picking up 29% more searches in 2010 than it did in 2009. But Google, despite already having a huge lead in the market, also picked up 13% more searches last year. Those numbers, and many others, are part of comScore’s “2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review” […]
Searches on Bing-powered engines grew 6.5% in the U.S. from December to January, climbing from 25.77% of total search volume to 27.44%. Google lost 2.5%, dropping from 69.67% to 67.95% of searches. This according to the latest Experian Hitwise Search Engine Analysis report, which looks at U.S. traffic. Bing.com saw the greatest increase in searches […]
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Czech search engine Seznam.cz disagrees with recent reports that Google has overtaken it as the number one search engine in the Czech Republic. In a blog post with an accompanying English-language translation, Seznam calls last week’s news reports “misleading” and says they were based on “a rather unobjective interpretation of Toplist statistics.” The news, which […]
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 […]
Google has just become the number one search engine in the Czech Republic, leaving only five countries on earth where it’s not the most popular site for searching the web. According to Toplist, a web measurement service, Google’s aggregate share inside the Czech Republic was 47.2% between January 4 and January 12 (yesterday). That’s a […]
Both Bing and Yahoo saw minor gains in search market share during November according to the new report from Experian Hitwise. Google saw a very slight drop in search share, but is still above 70% in the US. Bing’s share rose two percent and Yahoo’s three percent, giving the Bing-Yahoo combo a 25% share of […]
My Google Chrome Cr-48 notebook has just arrived. For my first day with it, I decided a good torture test would be to unplug my Windows 7 machine and see how the Google laptop worked in its place. Let’s go!
Google inched slightly higher in search engine market share during October, according to the latest monthly report from comScore. The October report is the second one since comScore began separating out what it calls “explicit core search,” a measurement that takes into account the automatic display of search results in Google Instant Search. ComScore gives […]
I’ve been using the new RockMelt browser since late last night, but this is not a review. I’m merely interested in pointing out that users can search the toolbar (as with Safari or Firefox) and get Google results — but they’re ad free in this case. There’s no SERP with ads, just a list of […]
According to ad network Chitika the top two search engines on the iPhone . . . are both Google. Coming out of the mobile search panel at SMX East earlier this month Chitika’s research director Dan Ruby presented data showing that Google is responsible for about 97 percent (96.9 percent) of mobile search traffic that […]
comScore has released its latest search share figures to analysts. UBS is first out of the gate to report them. In the wake of Google Instant, Google is once again gaining share, after several months of slight decline. Meanwhile after months of gains, Yahoo drops after becoming “powered” by Bing.
The combination of Bing and Yahoo — both of which now use Bing-powered search results — didn’t make any gains on Google during September, according to the latest stats from Experian Hitwise. In fact, not only did the two not gain on Google, but they also lost a little bit of ground compared to August. […]
How can Nielsen say Bing has overtaken Yahoo while comScore reports that Yahoo grew and leads Bing by more than 6 points? Someone is right and someone is wrong. Here is the Nielsen data from earlier this week, showing Microsoft/Bing overtaking Yahoo: And here is the August comScore data (reported by Citibank): Google: 65.4% (down […]
According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft’s Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. Nielsen says that Google’s August share is 65% (and growth is flat) but that Bing and Yahoo have now switched places: Although Google saw little change in its month-over-month search volume, it still […]
In the first five days of its search alliance, Bing and Yahoo combined to hold just under 25% of the search engine market share. That’s according to an Experian Hitwise release just out this afternoon. Yahoo and Bing announced that the transition to using Bing-powered organic results on Yahoo was completed on August 24th. According […]
Bing’s search engine market share has risen 51% in the U.S. over the past 12 months according to Nielsen stats announced today. According to Nielsen, Bing’s market share in July 2010 was up to 13.6%, a 51% jump from its 9% market share in July 2009 — which was basically Bing’s second month of existence. […]
There’s little change in the latest search engine market share numbers from Experian Hitwise. The company announced its stats for July 2010 today, and there’s almost no change at all for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Ask.com did get a 6% jump from June, Hitwise says.
As Danny earlier pointed out, comScore has devised a new metric called “Explicit Core Search” to separate intended search results from slideshow “gaming” (“contextual search”), which had arguably distorted search volumes at Yahoo and to some degree Bing in recent months. Here’s how comScore explains the new metric: When comScore reports our July 2010 qSearch […]
Well here’s a surprise. New stats from Chitika show Bing has taken over the second place spot for search market share from Yahoo — and back in January 2010! Chitika is an advertising network similar to Google AdSense. The company receives data about visits to the 80,000 sites in its network, which are mostly US […]
Danny wrote about the latest comScore search share numbers and what they might mean. Have Yahoo and Bing genuinely gained share or has it been gamed or rigged with tricks? Has Google lost share? Danny argued that Google’s share might have slipped slightly but that overall query volume had risen so the share numbers don’t […]
Once again, Yahoo and Bing have gained share against Google, in the latest monthly search market share figures from comScore. However, questions remain on whether the growth from “slideshow” presentations should be counted as “real” searches. Meanwhile, on a volume basis, Google continued to grow, not drop, its market share. comScore’s latest figures — the […]
At least according to the latest report from Experian Hitwise, that is. Google continues to hold 71.65% of search share, while Yahoo remained steady at 14%. Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers Domain May 2010 June 2010 Month-over-month percentage change www.google.com 72.17% 71.65% -1% search.yahoo.com 14.43% 14.37% -0% www.bing.com* 9.23% 9.85% 7% […]
Google surpassed the 72% market share level again, according to the latest numbers from Experian Hitwise. For Google, the May 2010 market share of 72.17% is up slightly over April. Yahoo and Bing, meanwhile, both saw slight declines according to Hitwise. Google hasn’t been above 72% on the Hitwise chart since last December, when it […]
Yahoo’s up again in comScore’s latest search rankings. Reason? It seems largely due to non-search “slideshow” activity. Solution? Time to end the bullshit way search share figures are calculated. Chance of success? Probably nil, but it’s worth hoping for. Today’s figures, for share of searches in the US handled by the major search engines, show […]
Nielsen has just posted its search market share numbers for April, 2010, and there’s good news for Bing. After a slight drop between February and March, Bing rose again in April to an all-time high of 12.9% market share. That represents an increase of almost 6% from Bing’s 12.2% share in March. Google dropped slightly, […]
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 […]
The comScore monthly search data release is now such an anti-climax because it’s “leaked” a day ahead of time by financial analysts and then immediately republished by bloggers who receive the research notes. We’re on that list too. This month’s data (April) are a bit muddled because of UI changes at Yahoo and Google. Here’s […]
Google regained some of its recent losses in search market share according to the April statistics just released by Experian Hitwise. The company says Google held 71.4% of the market during April, up from 69.97% in March. Yahoo and Bing saw slight drops in market share between March and April. Here’s the chart: As far […]
Google’s share of the paid search market in China fell a little more than 13% in the first quarter of 2010, marking Google’s first drop in that category since Q2 of 2009. The stats come from the Beijing-based research company Analysys International and are being reported today by Bloomberg. Google’s share of China’s paid search […]
Echoing recent stats that show Bing slowly growing its search engine market share, a new report says Bing is also increasing its share of search ad spending and clicks. The news comes from the latest quarterly report written by Efficient Frontier, a search marketing agency that manages more than $900 million in digital spending annually. […]
Experian Hitwise is the first of the traffic measurement services to check in with numbers for March 2010, and there’s really no other way to say it: March was a strange month of consmer searching. Google continues to lead the way with almost 70% search share, but that represents a fourth straight declining month for […]
The latest search market share numbers from Nielsen are out, and it’s more good news for the folks in Redmond. Nielsen says Bing’s market share in February was 12.5%, an all-time high that continues Bing’s overall growth since it launched last year. That figure represents a 15% increase from its January market share. It’s also […]
Just last week at SMX West, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his short-term goal for Bing is to gain a point here or a tenth there — to chip away and slowly increase its share of the search market. The latest numbers from Experian Hitwise show that Bing is doing exactly that. Hitwise shows Bing […]
Bing sent me a link to their new UK Bing commercial. The new UK ad blitz by Microsoft is aimed at capturing market share from Google in that region. Here is that commercial.
The financial analysts were busy yesterday pushing out the comScore search market share data for February, which officially comes out later today. What the data show is: Google regaining some share “lost” in January and continued gains by Bing, albeit at a somewhat slowing pace. Yahoo lost some share again and so did Ask, while […]
Search share numbers regularly go up and down a percent here and a percent there; that’s normal. So no surprise that Bing’s January share, as reported by Nielsen, wiped out its drop from December. Here’s the January chart: And for comparison, here are the December and November charts, also from Nielsen: Even Google’s small drop […]