Google US Domination!

In the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009 Google has managed to get over 71% of all searches made in the US. This a huge piece of the market for one company to have which is scary but you can see why. Bing hasn't brought anything new to the search engine world and to be honest I would prefer Google to be in charge than Microsoft.

Google has recently brought out real time search in the US and the UK to battle the new search engine Bing. I think Google has won for now. They have also rolled out the personalised search so you no longer have to be logged in. I am sure Microsoft will be thinking of new ideas for Bing to contend with Google but I think they are a long way off.

Here is the Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider taken from Hitwise.com

Domain	August 2009	September 2009	Month-over-month percent change
www.google.com	70.24%	71.08%	1%
search.yahoo.com	16.96%	16.38%	-3%
www.bing.com*	9.48%	8.96%	-5%
www.ask.com	2.37%	2.56%	8%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Oct. 3, 2009, and Aug. 29, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.
*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
Source: Experian Hitwise Source: Google US Domination