According to a survey, Google holds the top position amongst Search engines, in US with 72% market share, whereas Yahoo at second position with 14%, followed by bing with 9%.
| Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers | |||
| Domain | April 2010 | May 2010 | Month-over-month percentage change |
| www.google.com | 71.40% | 72.17% | 1% |
| search.yahoo.com | 14.96% | 14.43% | -3% |
| www.bing.com* | 9.43% | 9.23% | -2% |
| www.ask.com | 2.18% | 2.14% | -2% |
| Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending May 1, 2010, and May 29, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only. *This includes executed searches on Bing.com but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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| Source: Experian Hitwise | |||
With Google Commerce search, it has seen significant increase in traffic with 13% growth. In our earlier post, we have described how Google Commerce Search intelligently leverages the product feed and provides your website with search capabilities.
| Percentage of U.S. upstream traffic from search engines among verticals | |||||||||
| Yahoo! Search | Bing** | ||||||||
| Domain | May 2009 | May 2010 | Year-over-year percentage change | May 2009 | May 2010 | Year-over-year percentage change | May 2009 | May 2010 | Year-over-year percentage change |
| Automotive | 20.73% | 22.70% | 10% | 4.20% | 4.73% | 13% | 1.51% | 2.96% | 96% |
| Health | 34.38% | 31.64% | -8% | 5.99% | 4.94% | -18% | 1.98% | 4.10% | 107% |
| Shopping | 17.76% | 20.06% | 13% | 3.64% | 3.99% | 10% | 1.29% | 2.66% | 106% |
| Travel | 28.66% | 30.34% | 6% | 4.96% | 4.46% | -10% | 1.91% | 3.12% | 63% |
| Note: Data is based on monthly upstream traffic from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only.
**This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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| Source: Experian Hitwise | |||||||||
Posted: July 9th, 2010 under Google, Google Commerce Search, Google Search, Search Engines.
Tags: Google, Google Search, Search Engines
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