Have you seen the ads on TV yet? We mentioned the Bing Adverts a little while back, but this considered effort on Microsoft’s behalf to improve Bing’s profile seems to be built on already improved market share in February.
Even though Yahoo and Bing represent a sizeable section of the US search market they are still very much playing second-fiddle to Google.
Top 10 Search Providers for February 2010, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) |
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Rank | Provider | Searches (000) | Share of Searches |
All Search | 9,175,357 | 100.0% | |
1 | Google Search | 5,981,044 | 65.2% |
2 | Yahoo! Search | 1,294,261 | 14.1% |
3 | MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search | 1,142,364 | 12.5% |
4 | AOL Search | 206,969 | 2.3% |
5 | Ask.com Search | 175,074 | 1.9% |
6 | My Web Search | 91,288 | 1.0% |
7 | Comcast Search | 55,122 | 0.6% |
8 | Yellow Pages Search | 27,002 | 0.3% |
9 | NexTag Search | 26,462 | 0.3% |
10 | WhitePages.com Network Search | 24,681 | 0.3% |
Source: The Nielsen Company |
More information can be found on the NielsenWire Blog.
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