February 2011 Search Market Share Report
in Online Media & Search Search by Jin Han — March 16, 2011 at 9:11 am | 22 comments

- With fewer days in February, search query volume across the 5 engines was down nearly 12% MOM.
- The trend for search market share continues with Google losing incremental share (-0.7ppt), while Bing continues to gain share (+1.0ppt).
- All engines except Bing experienced a decline in unique visitors in February, with Bing seeing a 7.6% increase in UVs MOM.
- Bing Powered engines (Yahoo! and Bing) continued to increase its share of market to 30.8%.
- Both ASK and AOL’s share remained flat from January to February.
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Are these numbers for US market share or global?
Currently they are for US.
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Great stats! Do you have specific search market share stats for Canada? Thanks!
Jackson
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