Bing Reaches All-Time High Market Share
Last month, Bing hit an all-time high for their core search and their explicit search, according to comScore. Now you may think this has to mean Google’s market share also took a dive, but Google’s market share increased as well. Here is a breakdown of the figures according to comScore:
June 2011 Explicit Search
- Google: 65.5% (unchanged from May)
- Yahoo: 15.9% (unchanged from May)
- Bing: 14.4% (up .3% from May)
Together, Yahoo and Bing have a combined marketshare of 30.2%, which is up .2% from May.
Google and Bing’s growth came at the expense of Ask and AOL, both at record lows of 2.9% and 1.4%, respectively.
June 2011, Core Search
- Google: 64.5% (up from 1.2% from May)
- Yahoo: 17.5% (-2.1% from May)
- Bing: 14.1% (up from 1.0% from May)
This is also an all-time high for Bing’s Core search.
Overall search activity has increased, according to comScore. Core search is up 14% of June of last year, while the explicit search is up 8% from June of last year.