Google’s U.S. search engine market share is back above 65 percent, while Yahoo declined after two months of growth, comScore reported. Meanwhile, Hitwise shows Google hovering above 66 percent with Bing, Yahoo, and Bing-powered search all down.
Google’s U.S. search engine market share climbed back up above 65 percent in September, while Yahoo’s share declined after two months of growth, according to comScore. While comScore shows Google market share just above 65 percent, Hitwise shows them hovering above 66 percent with Bing, Yahoo, and Bing-powered search all down.
The search engine rankings for September 2011, according to comScore were:
More than 17.1 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September. Google lead the way with 11.2 billion; Yahoo ended up with 2.6 billion, followed close by Bing with 2.5 billion. Ask Network with 507 million searches, followed by AOL with 265 million.
All the major search engines dropped except for Google, which increased 2 percent over last month, according to Hitwise.
The search engine rankings for September 2011, according to Hitwise, were:
Up 3 percent were search queries of eight or more words while longer search queries averaging five to eight words or more are all about the same. One-word searches were the majority of searches, accounting for 26.45 percent of all search volume.