Google’s Global Search Share Declines

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According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Google’s share of the global online search market fell to 69.7% in the second quarter from 71.1% in the first quarter.

Baidu the largest search engine in China, now has a global share nearly as large as that of Microsoft  and Yahoo .  The report shows that Baidu’s global market share is 4.5% compared to 4.8% for Microsoft and 5.4% for Yahoo.

The total global advertising search market was $6.2 billion, up 2.2% from the first quarter.

The Microsoft and Yahoo market shares are so modest that it’s hard to imagine that even when they are combined, as is planned, they will grab much more than 10% of the global market.

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

  3. BullS says

    Iknow-I know Mr.MHB.

    Do you know that Baidu is the Chinese sponsored homepage of China!!!

    All the Chinese/PCs in China are forced to use Baidu.

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    MHB permalink

    Bull

    Baidu is not the only search engine in China

  5. Tim says

    I use Bing.com almost exclusively for search and have gotten to like Yahoo for news a lot more lately.

    I think that regular patterns of search have been disrupted a bit lately as folks search for better sources. I just don’t find Google giving me great results anymore and FoxNews, CNN, and USA Today are not as good as Yahoo News really so I have moved away from big G and the regulars for news. BBC for news is pretty good also.