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Market share of search engines in the United States 2008-2019
Share of search queries handled by leading U.S. search engine providers as of April 2019
by J. Clement,
last edited
Jul 30, 2019
In April 2019, Microsoft Sites handled 24.8 percent of all search queries in the United States. During the same period of time, Verizon Media (formerly known as Yahoo and Oath) had a search market share of 11.6 percent. Market leader Google generated 62.7 percent of all core search queries in the United States.
Share of search queries handled by leading U.S. search engine providers as of April 2019
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by J. Clement,
last edited
Jul 30, 2019
In April 2019, Microsoft Sites handled 24.8 percent of all search queries in the United States. During the same period of time, Verizon Media (formerly known as Yahoo and Oath) had a search market share of 11.6 percent. Market leader Google generated 62.7 percent of all core search queries in the United States.
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- October 2007 to April 2019
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- desktop only, home and work internet locations
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Values may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. Numbers reflect "explicit core search” which excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
No data available for May to December 2017.
*Formerly known as Yahoo and Oath
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- desktop only, home and work internet locations
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Values may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. Numbers reflect "explicit core search” which excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
No data available for May to December 2017.
*Formerly known as Yahoo and Oath
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