HitWise: Google’s US Search Share Now Up To Almost 72%

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According to the data provider HitWise Google’s share of U.S. Internet searches rose 1.4% in November to 71.6%,

Yahoo’s U.S. search share fell 4.6% to 15.4%.

Bing’s search share also slipped 2.4% to 9.3%,

Ask.com edged up to 2.7%.

Hitwise, said Google’s percentage of traffic grew for the automotive, shopping and travel categories.

Bing, saw double-digit growth among those three categories and health.

Yahoo reported declines in all four categories, with the biggest drop, 20%, in health.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. M. Menius says

    And very recently Yahoo seems to have developed a site submission problem. A log-in is required to submit a site, but after doing so I get caught in a never-ending loop. The goal is to GAIN market share, not lose it!

    A Yahoo fan anyway.

  4. VeryEasyEuro says

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    Yahoo isn’t dead now, but Bing is falling despite the giant MS investment on it

    unfortunately, Google is too hard to beat and MS and Yahoo have no new ideas

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  5. Domain Investor says

    Quote-
    “MS and Yahoo have no new ideas”

    Isn’t that the major problem with them?

    When was the last time Yahoo introduced something people wanted and Google didn’t already have?

    I hate using Google because I know they are the antichrist.
    🙂

  6. rob sequin says

    Maybe Yahoo and AOL should merge 🙂

    Geesh.

    A former Yahoo fan too.

    They haven’t done anything right since they bought Flickr like five years ago.

    They just lost without direction… dead in the water.

  7. Tim Davids says

    buying OMG.com was a good move.

    Yahoo should have bought youtube at any price…the next two to watch are twitter and facebook. If one company buys both its game over. If they split I think facebook is the better catch. Twitter would be easier to copy.

  8. M. Menius says

    I think too it is often a mistake when a major website with a large user base decide that a new site design/layout is somehow a needed improvement. Yahoo have been going through site redesigns and this forces the user to spend considerable time relearning the site, its functions, etc. Or, in some cases, this unwanted change facilitates a permanent exodus.

    I used Yahoo advertising once and they screwed up. I used Microsoft advertising once and they goofed. I used Google and it worked as advertised! Guess who has gotten all of my business.

    Many companies take for granted that once they have a customer, the customer won’t leave. Wrong! Advertising gets the customer there, once. Customer service and a quality product KEEP the customer there.

  10. VeryEasyEuro says

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    more seriously, the Google monopoly in every field of the web business will damage also the websites and domains business, since they are both related to number of products, software and services on the market

    just one example to explain my point

    the Linux-derived Chrome OS (soon merged with Android) could kill nearly ALL Linux related websites and domains

    so, we will see the death of hundreds Linux distro and their websites, but, also, of every website or domain that talk about them: forums, blogs, software, etc.

    the same will happen when Yahoo and Bing will die (or will be sold to Google) due to low market share and lots of debts

    or when the only cellular OS will be Android (and, later, the cellular version of Chrome OS) etc.

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