Recent numbers from comScore indicate that Yahoo! and Bing have made strides in the search engine market this year, but there has been a great deal of controversy as to whether or not those gains were real. So, since we see traffic generated by search engines rather than queries entered (as comScore does), we thought we’d take a look at our own data from April through the 13th of July, to see whether or not it appeared the slideshow trick really skewed the data.
As it turns out, comScore appears to be right about actual market share changes. Between April and July, Yahoo! has picked up one percent of the market, Bing has picked up over two percent, and Google has seen a corresponding decline in traffic generated.
So, perhaps the concerns about Yahoo! artificially inflating their search market share are less concerning than we first thought. In the meantime, Google is still far and away the dominant player in the search engine market, much to the surprise of absolutely nobody. Across the Chitika network, which provides a pretty huge cross-section of the Internet, Google still generates nearly 86% of all search traffic.
The Numbers:
| Yahoo! | Bing | AOL | Ask | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 88.9% | 4.9% | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% |
| May | 88.5% | 5.2% | 4.7% | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| June | 86.8% | 5.3% | 6.1% | 0.9% | 1% |
| July (MTD) | 85.8% | 5.9% | 6.6% | 0.8% | 0.9% |
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Great take on the ‘acutal’ numbers, Dan….and while our own numbers are teensy compared to your sample, yes…G does still rank in the high 80% of ALL search engine traffic, eh!
Nice to see….I seriously doubt the veracity of the comScore numbers now whenever I see same…they must look at their forumulas, eh!
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Jim
Having run businesses with #1 rankings at for the same search terms at all three major U.S. search engines; Google, Yahoo and Bing for the same search terms, I have found the breakdown in queries to be close this.
If you have a #1 ranking at Google for every 100 unique visitors you will 8 – 12 from Yahoo and 5 – 8 from Bing. I think your numbers are of much more valuable than Comscore’s.
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