Google Receives 80 Percent of Canadian Searches in September 2009, Hitwise (Oct 19)
Google has had roughly 80% of the Canadian search market for some time. Hitwise shows that this is holding. It's hard to tell if there is really a trend but Bing (Microsoft) dropped by 6% to 7.65% and Yahoo by 5% to 7.99%.
"ExperianŽ HitwiseŽ announced today that Google search properties accounted for 80.46 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! search properties, Bing search properties and Ask search properties received 7.99 percent, 7.65 percent and 3.09 percent, respectively. The remaining 46 search engines in the Experian Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1 percent of Canadian searches."
Also - at least in the US, searchers are slowly using more words in their queries. About 49% are now three words of more.
Posted by Gwen at October 28, 2009 12:16 PM