• U.S. search query market share by search engine 2018

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Accounting for almost 69 percent of online search queries in the third quarter of 2018, Google is the undisputed search engine leader in the United States. During the same period, Google Images accounted for 20.9 percent of search queries in the United States, highlighting U.S. consumer desire for visual content.

Distribution of online search queries in the United States from 4th quarter of 2015 to 3rd quarter of 2018, by search engine

	Google	Google Images	YouTube	Yahoo	Bing	Amazon	Facebook	Google Maps
Q3 '18	68.7%	20.9%	3%	1.7%	1.5%	1.5%	1.1%	0.8%
Q2 '18	68.5%	21.3%	2.7%	1.8%	1.6%	1.4%	1.1%	0.8%
Q1 '18	67.7%	22.2%	2.7%	1.8%	1.6%	1.4%	1.1%	0.8%
Q4 '17	61.6%	23%	4.6%	2.3%	2.2%	2.8%	1.4%	1.2%
Q3 '17	60.9%	22.9%	4.4%	2.6%	2.6%	2.7%	1.6%	1.4%
Q2 '17	61.9%	22.8%	4%	2.5%	2.6%	2.4%	1.6%	1.3%
Q1 '17	61.9%	23.6%	4%	2.3%	2.2%	2.3%	1.5%	1.2%
Q4 '16	59.6%	26%	4.1%	2.5%	2.4%	2.5%	0.8%	1.4%
Q3 '16	55.7%	28.8%	4.1%	2.8%	2.6%	2%	0.6%	2.6%
Q2 '16	54.8%	29.1%	4.2%	3%	3.1%	1.8%	0.6%	2.7%
Q1 '16	55.6%	28.2%	4.1%	3.1%	3.3%	1.8%	0.6%	2.6%
Q4 '15	52.2%	29.7%	4.5%	3.3%	3.4%	2.2%	0.4%	3.5%

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June 2019

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United States

Survey time period

Q4 2015 to Q3 2018

Supplementary notes

Values may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. Twitter, Pinterest, DuckDuckGo = less than 1 percent

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