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Bing is now the No.2 search engine worldwide
According to Web analytics company StatCounter, Bing has overtaken Yahoo in January to become the No.2 search engine worldwide.Once you see the numbers though, it's tough not to feel sorry for both Bing and Yahoo, since Google's global market share in February was 89.94% -- with Bing following at 4.37% and Yahoo at 3.93%. And while Google has fallen below 90% for the first time since August 2009, the gap between it and its competitors is still incredibly large. No matter how much money Microsoft continues to throw at this, the No.1 spot seems a certainty for Google for the forseeable future.
Also interesting is that Microsoft may not necessarily gain that much from Yahoo's loss, since Bing also powers Yahoo's search results in certain countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico. In the US, Yahoo still retains a slight lead over Bing with 9.74% of the market compared to 9.03% (Google's share is 79.63%).
StatCounter's report is based on aggregate data collected on a sample of over 15 billion page views per month from across the Statcounter network of about 3 million sites. Therefore, conflicting reports may come out at some point, but one thing's for certain: Bing is on the rise, even if it's not growing fast enough to make Google nervous in any way.
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Subscribe to commentsNyaRMar 2nd 2011 3:18PM
Yahoo is not a search engine, they use bing for web.
emmzeeMar 2nd 2011 3:23PM
As an alternative source of stats/percentages, comScore (as reported via SearchEngineWatch) presents a much less dominant picture for Google:
Google: 65.6%
Yahoo: 16.1%
Bing: 13.1%
Ask: 3.4%
AOL: 3.1%
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641930
Whether these are more or less accurate #'s than StatCounter, I don't know.
Android underlingMar 2nd 2011 4:12PM
@emmzee Those are US stats, not worldwide.
kojo87Mar 2nd 2011 4:28PM
@Android underling
that makes sense then. i can't imagine Microsoft has advertised Bing nearly as much around the world as they have in America.
Platinum_SkeetMar 2nd 2011 4:42PM
@kojo87
To add Bing means an infection or disease in Chinese so that's a huge market you can't even get a handle on just because the name...
motangMar 2nd 2011 6:34PM
Well you kill off #2, naturally #3 will become #2. :)
taowelieMar 3rd 2011 1:06PM
yeah because it's the friggin default for IE and lets face it, the majority of computers users don't know the difference between browsers or even how to change their search engine, nor do they care or know what they're using as long as it gets them results.