whoa!

Most impressive. This obviously isn’t entirely down to Android, but it can’t hurt that it’s doing so well.

Confused by this graph. I though Google’s non-mobile share is only like 62%? Is this graph using different metrics?

Microsoft getting owned.

Should just throw Yahoo and Bing into “Other” category

It’s based on global data, not US-only.

How did the government allow the Admob acquisition to go through?

Bing all the way. bing me here and bing me there,

man MS killed bing before they released it,

Okay, so Google stands to lose some of its share to new upstarts in the mobile search area. Lets watch this unfold.

Mind boggling – how is this good for competition?

I thought Yahoo! would be a lot higher than 0.81%.

It just shows that most people find google search superior, if something is better than the rest, of coarse it will blow the others away.

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nothing strange for me… I’ve already predicted (over one year ago) that Yahoo and Bing will lose tons of money (trying to compete with Google) and will be SOLD to Google for $1 in 2012

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then, two-three years later, over 90% of the Web will be in Google’s hands!!!

gaetano marano
mylowcostpc.com

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AdMob doesn’t sell ads against search. It’s a mobile display ad network. Totally different market.

And this is driving Apple nuts! To think that 40% of those traffic came from their precious mobile iDevices. http://2su.de/q4p

I would assume that the few Y! and Bing users are employees ;)

I’m in the 1.79%. Bing.

That’s awesome, Google Search rocks! Come on Bing guys, continue ranting “Google’s copying Bing”.

Balmer should resign.

It doesn’t work that way.

numbers dont look right.
Bing’s search market share is almost same as Yahoo. While just in US, they are 60-80% of Yahoo and they are not even present in most of the intl markets.

…and some say that Google does not have another engine for growth??

You really shouldn’t use something like statcounter to measure search share. Statcounter is installed on few major sites where the majority of search traffic from Yahoo and Bing end up. There is a reason that statcounter’s search share numbers don’t match the industry numbers on the web as well.

I doubt doubling their MAC sales, completely dominating with the iPad, and having the best selling phone… again… is pissing off Apple. I know you, and many are waiting for them to fail, but its not happening, yet.

SAME FUKKKN THING

That doesn’t work when people already say “just google it”.

it is much simpler then quality of search
google is a default search engine on almost all phones
btw if google is so open and no evil
why I cannot Change a default search engine on my android PHONE?

It does not feel right to me either. The only explanations that comes to mind is that the stats that I know (Google = 60 to 65%) talk about revenues for search engines and this one talks about search.

Can’t wait until Apple makes iSearch STANDARD for the iPhone. LMAO. That’ll teach the GOOGLEBOTZ and FANDROIDS!!!!

LOLZ *burp*

-Posted from my Fandroid.

“using global visitor stats for more than three million websites”

Seems like a decent sample size to me.

This other study gives wildly different results for the non-mobile search market share. While I don’t know how reliable the study is, it “feels” way more reasonable, putting Google at 69%

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/google-market-share/19568150/

…in my moms basement.

hmm, but then it says the 3 other large players only add up to 15%. Added to google’s ~70%, thats only 85%. Are they saying that globally there is 15% usage outside of the big4?

Even if they are clicking more because they aren;t finding what they need… thats driving ad revenue aka the only thing that matters.

What an utter load of crap! Google’s global search market share is no where near 90% and it most certainly does not have 98% of mobile either. These are web-based stats sourced from a FREE analytics program – i.e. they are heavily skewed by the small percentage of high-traffic sites that use StatCounter.

Get your stats from a credible source – one that uses user-based data. Hitwise and Comscore may not be great but they’re a hell of lot more accurate than this guff.

Fact: Google’s Global Market Share = ~70%
http://bit.ly/9ZYlm3

And you numpties lap this stuff up like it’s gospel. Start questioning what you’re reading! And TC – stop posting crap please!

That’s dominating!!!
http://tiny.cc/750i4

I like Google. But doubt the numbers. It’s definitely in the favor of Google, but not that much. Looks ridiculously exaggerated.

Yes. There are many search engines that own significant market search in specific countries – Naver, Yandex, etc. Also, Google/Bing/Yahoo comprises ~92% of the US market. Ask.com and others still own small percentages. It adds up.

I agree, these numbers are inaccurate. Statcounter, I assume, is only counting referrals from these search engines, ie clicks.

1) Perhaps Bing users find what they need right on the results page because Bing provides info such as flight data internally.

2) Perhaps Bing users find what they are looking for on the first result, and Google users have to click 10 links before finding what they need.

bing sux
google rox
microsoft = monopoly and evil
google = not evil and not monopoly bc you can choose if you want g, y, or b
of course you can change windows to linux/mac but you either dont have linux dell, hp, acer etc or pay expansive macs (wich are way better then windows)
so microsoft is evil and monopoly
well done google

If it was global data Google would be much lower than 90%. In the US alone Google is around 65%. In China which is one of the (if not the) largest web markets Baidu is crushing Google.

Something is definitely up with the number presented here.

…in your moms butt.

Mobile first at it’s Best!

PPC Means: Search->Scan->Click – kaching – 25 cents per click

cheers
ajay mishra

You know how you spot a true fanboy? When there’s good news about his chosen religion/company, he uses it as an opportunity to attack other companies.

Am I the only one will to call bullshit on these numbers? I know Google dominates mobile search ads but they’re not the only game in town. This seems terribly skewed.

BING is the default search engine on verizon’s vcast phones. That is the ONLY time I ever use bing. Other than that, it is google all the way!!!

Because right now Google *is* the US Government (or at least the part of it that “gets” tech).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/23/googleburton/

I don’t think this is the whole story … people are using mobile apps like Yelp and others to find thing on the go.

Mobile search that actually hits a traditional search engine interface is some fraction of the total “searching” activity that happens. What that fraction is … who knows.

Guys maybe you don’t know that but many (most) countries in europe are like 95% Google

I guess it depends what statcounter means by “global” too. sometimes they can’t include certain countries because it’s hard to get reliable data (maybe china is left out)

Let’s do everything we can to further Google’s monopoly.

“then, two-three years later, over 90% of the Web will be in Google’s hands!!!”

And how is that good? This is nothing but Google fanboyism going on.

Of course Google’s mobile search share is high when it is the factory default search engine on many phones, including my non-smartphone. To use another search engine, I have to key through a few menus until I get to a “URL” menu item, then key in name of alternative search engine.

Yes, this is the same way Microsoft got big (at least in the Internet world)… by making IE the default browser on new PCs and making it hard to switch to a different default browser.

Yup impressive results by Google.

Can someone tell me the rationale for including Yahoo in a graph like this? Some time ago Yahoo agreed to use MS’s search and drop Yahoo’s own search.

So really, as far as I understand, any time someone uses Yahoo to search, they’re actually using Bing. Since that’s the case I think the Yahoo traffic ought to be stacked within the Bing column.

Yup, I agree that StatCounter’s statistics look way too skewed, and is most prob due to their methodology. human-based approach will probably be more accurate.

This is BS.
The world’s biggest mobile market is China. Baidu wipes the floor with Google there.
In Japan, another huge market, Yahoo is the leader.
These are just 2.
Do the math, and you’ll see that there’s no way Google reaches 98%.

not every mobile in china is a smartphone, the smartphone market is like “just getting started” there. Those who has a limited data plan with their feature phones, mostly perform searches just on google map.

No surprise since you cannot use any other search but from Google on iPhone and Android phones, and those have the most lucrative data plans.

No..? He even pointed out how they were different.

Bing’s iPhone app is surprisingly good, but unfortunately it is not yet possible to change the default search provider in mobile safari. If apple really cares about this they will allow adding user-specified search engines, similar to how desktop web browsers do.

Does anyone know what type of search volume (stats) mobile search is generating?

does anyone know how much search traffic is generated through mobile?

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