04 Feb 10 Google Still Rules the Search Roost, Recorded a 58% Rise in Search Volume

Written by: bikram

In a study conducted for December 2009 by a market research firm comScore, Inc. it was found that Google has outperformed the global search market in year-on-year (YoY) growth. Google has recorded a YoY growth of 58% in December 2009 against December 2008, whereas, search market worldwide grew by 40%.

People used Google to make 87.8 billion searches in December 2009 as against 55.6 billion searches in December 2008. Yahoo came at distant number two position with only 9.4 billion searches in the same period. Chinese search engine was at number 3 with a total search volume of 8.5 billion searches. (See image for the complete result).

Among the search engines that outperformed the growth of search market were: Yandex with 91% growth, Microsoft sites (70% growth), eBay (58% growth), and Facebook (54% growth).

Bing (part of Microsoft sites) looked positive, but it still has a long way to go before it could match Google’s result. It would be interesting to see from here how it does in coming months.

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