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Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine in the World: comScore

August 23, 2008 – 4:25 am

On Thursday comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July. Google’s market share rose 0.4%, which at the same time Yahoo!’s market share dropped 0.4%. Coincidence much?

At the same time, the global search numbers are just as interesting, if not more so. Google actually lost market share globally, but this drop was largely due to changes in the way comScore measures traffic in China, Brazil, and Russia.

Baidu’s global search market share went rose 5.2% to 12.9% in July. Looking at the numbers, Baidu is now the third-largest search engine globally.


NHN is a South Korean search engine, BTW. Nothing for Google to worry about, as 64.1% is nothing to sneeze at, and the change was mostly due to “accounting changes.” Still, Microsoft and Yahoo! might want to worry some about Baidu.

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Google’s Search Market Share Tops 70%

August 13, 2008 – 7:01 pm

… but they’re still not a monopoly, at least if you ask the company. On Monday researchers at market research firm Hitwise released their monthly search share report, and their data indicates that Google has now topped 70% in terms of search market share.

Google reached a new milestone and accounted for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches. Google’s share of searches increased 10% over the same month last year and 2% over the previous month. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search (including Live.com), and Ask followed with 18.65%, 5.36%, and 3.53% share of searches, respectively.

That’s Google’s tenth consecutive record high in monthly search share.

And if you wonder why Microsoft is / was so keen on snagging Yahoo!’s search technology — and thus its users — MSN Search (which includes Live Search) has felt a lot of pain: it accounted for just 5.36% of U.S. Internet search in July. Last year Microsoft had 8.79%. Whoops.

But still, really, Google’s not a monopoly, right?

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