They have more than 90% of the market. The fact that alternatives exist doesn't ...

darksaints · on Aug 20, 2013

Actually, by definition, you are wrong. And you are wrong about 90% of the market as well.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2289560/Googles-Search-...

wisty · on Aug 20, 2013

IIRC, Google tends to have more "real" searches. A lot of Bing and Yahoo searches probably have the query string "Facebook" because people have it as the default engine, or are already on a Yahoo / MS property (like their web mail). A lot of these people will then type "Google" into the Bing / Yahoo search box, when they need to find something.

mason240 · on Aug 20, 2013

A lot of Google searches come from the same place: having google as the default search engine and then typing in "facebook" rather than "facebook.com"

JDDunn9 · on Aug 20, 2013

That's only for the U.S. In all but a few foreign countries, Google has closer to a 90% market share.

andreascarpetta · on Aug 20, 2013

IIRC it's actually around 95%-ish in italy. We had some data shown by an important web analytics player during the italian Search marketing conference in December 2012. http://www.convegnogt.it/2012/interventi/lo-stato-del-search...