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Search engine market share for January & February 2011

Written by Ironpaper | Mar 13, 2011 7:20:11 PM

In the past four weeks, Google has accounted for 66.69 percent of all US searches and Bing-powered searches accounted for 28.48 percent in that same period, according to Experian® Hitwise®.

The Big / Yahoo search market breakdown:

  • Bing represents: 13.49 percent search market share
  • Yahoo represents: 14.99 percent search market share

This data shows that Yahoo and Bing have received the biggest gains for February 2011. In this same period, long search queries decreased by 2% from January to February 2011, whereas one-word search queries increased by 2% for that same period.