Of the 19.3 billion searches people made in the US in October, 12.9 billion of them were done on Google. November 13, 2013 6:06 PM PST Not much has changed in the US search engine market over the past month. Google held steady keeping its massive edge over all other players; and, Microsoft saw a small increase, while Yahoo experienced a minor decline. Digital analytics company ComScore released new data on Wednesday covering the US search engine market in October. The numbers show that Google maintained 66.9 percent of the market and Microsoft came in a distant second with 18.1 percent. In the rear, Yahoo got 11.1 percent, Ask had 2.6 percent, and AOL came in with 1.3 percent of the market. Related stories Bing amps up its music video search function Apple's TV plans on hold -- again, DisplaySearch says Privacy ruling forces Google to delete racy images Breaking down these percentages into raw numbers shows that in the US in October, users conducted 19.3 billion explicit core searches. This means Google alone saw 12.9 billion searches, Microsoft's Bing saw 3.5 billion, and Yahoo saw 2.2 billion. The numbers are almost the same as ComScore's data from last quarter. Over the last couple of years, Yahoo's search market share has been in a steady free fall. It finally lost its second-place spot to Microsoft's Bing in December 2011. Just a year and a half ago, Yahoo's search market share was 16 percent; by September 2012 it was 12 percent; and now it's down to 11 percent. (Credit: ComScore)
Of the 19.3 billion searches people made in the US in October, 12.9 billion of them were done on Google.
Not much has changed in the US search engine market over the past month. Google held steady keeping its massive edge over all other players; and, Microsoft saw a small increase, while Yahoo experienced a minor decline.
Digital analytics company ComScore released new data on Wednesday covering the US search engine market in October. The numbers show that Google maintained 66.9 percent of the market and Microsoft came in a distant second with 18.1 percent. In the rear, Yahoo got 11.1 percent, Ask had 2.6 percent, and AOL came in with 1.3 percent of the market.
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Breaking down these percentages into raw numbers shows that in the US in October, users conducted 19.3 billion explicit core searches. This means Google alone saw 12.9 billion searches, Microsoft's Bing saw 3.5 billion, and Yahoo saw 2.2 billion. The numbers are almost the same as ComScore's data from last quarter.
Over the last couple of years, Yahoo's search market share has been in a steady free fall. It finally lost its second-place spot to Microsoft's Bing in December 2011. Just a year and a half ago, Yahoo's search market share was 16 percent; by September 2012 it was 12 percent; and now it's down to 11 percent.
