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Between December 2008 and December 2009, Comscore estimated that the search engine market grew 46% worldwide. The highest growth has come from Russia, Brazil and France. You can see from the list below the total number of internet searches conducted in each country and their YoY growth
1. USA : 22.7 billion (22%)
2. China : 13.2 billion (13%)
3. Japan : 9.1 billion (48%)
4. UK : 6.2 billion (35%)
5. Germany : 5.6 billion (38%)
6. France : 5.4 billion (61%)
7. South Korea : 4.0 billion (44%)
8. Brazil : 3.7 billion (53%)
9. Canada : 3.7 billion (28%)
10. Russian Federation : 3.3 billion (92%)
Worldwide : 131.3 billion (46%)
Top Search Properties Worldwide
Google Sites ranked as the top search property worldwide with 87.8 billion searches in December, or 66.8 percent of the global search market. Google Sites achieved a 58-percent increase in search query volume over the past year. Yahoo! Sites ranked second globally with 9.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8.5 billion searches (up 7 percent). Microsoft Sites saw the greatest gains among the top five properties, growing 70 percent to 4.1 billion searches, on the strength of its successful introduction of new search engine Bing. Russian search engine Yandex also achieved considerable gains, growing 91 percent to 1.9 billion searches.
Source: Comscore
Written on Monday, 25 January 2010 20:22 by Matt McDougall
