>Americans Are Doing More Search Engine Queries & Yahoo/Microsoft Gain 31%

>Internet Users in the US conducted more search queries in March 2011 than they did in either the prior month or prior year, according to new comScore qSearch data. In March 2011, US web users conducted almost 18.9 billion search queries, up 12% from 16.9 billion in February 2011 and about 23% from 15.4 billion in March 2010.

Yahoo & Microsoft Gain 31% in Search Queries

Among US core search providers, Google sites ranked first with 12.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo sites with 3.4 billion and Microsoft sites with 2.6 billion. Google’s search total was up 10% month over month from 10.9 billion and 21% from 10 billion year over year.

Yahoo posted very strong month over month growth of 17% from 2.9 billion searches and year over year growth of 31% from 2.6 billion. Microsoft reported 14% month over month growth from about 2.2 billion searches and also about 31% year over year growth from 1.8 billion.

As the number of Internet Users  and Search Queries continues to increase it is increasingly important to have an effective optimized website with a Social Marketing campaign in place.  Facebook now has more daily traffic than Google thus a website alone is only reaching half of your potential clients without effective, optimized Social Network Marketing.

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>Microsoft & Bing Search Engine Has the Largest Search Growth

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Microsoft Sites, mostly representing the Bing search engine, reported 13% growth in US explicit core search queries between December 2010 and January 2011, according to comScore qSearch data. Microsoft’s explicit core search queries rose from about 1.97 billion to about 2.22 billion.

Nearly 17 billion explicit core searches were conducted in January 2011, a 3% increase from over 16.4 billion in December 2010. Google Sites ranked first with 11.1 billion searches (up 1%).

Yahoo Sites came in second with 2.7 billion (up 4%), followed by Microsoft Sites, Ask Network with 576 million (no change) and AOL Network with 296 million (5% decrease).

Google Sites accounted for 64.6% of total core search queries conducted in January 2011, followed by Yahoo Sites with 17.9% and Microsoft Sites with 12.8%. Rounding out the top five total core search query providers, Ask Network comprised 3.1% of total search queries, followed by AOL Network with 1.6%.

While all total core search query growth among the top five providers was moderate at best, Microsoft had the best rate, almost 7%, rising from 12% to 12.8%. In contrast, Google’s share grew by less than 1% (64.3% to 64.6%). Yahoo lost about 5% of its share (falling from 18.8% to 17.9%), Ask.com and AOL lost small share percentages.

It is important to track search engine traffic, usage and trends to know where potential customers and buyers are looking online.  To effectively search engine optimize a website and market website companies must stay ahead of the trends and place customers in front of potential buyers.  At Internet Builder Consulting our Search Engine Experts have led the way in SEO, Social Marketing and Website Development since 1995 with more than a decade of instructing classes on the subjects nationally.

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Bing Search Engine is Now # 2 Ahead of Yahoo While Google Remains # 1

In August 2010, MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search overtook Yahoo as the number two search engine in the US for the first time, according to new data from The Nielsen Company.

Bing Search Share Rose 30% from 2009

MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search held a 13.9% share of US searches in August 2010, narrowly beating Yahoo, which slipped to third place with a 13.1% share.



However, looking back to July 2009 gives a fuller picture of the divergent paths being taken by MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search and Yahoo. While Bing increased its US search share by an impressive 30% from 10.7% between July 2009 and July 2010, Yahoo decreased its share by a substantial 18% from 16%.

Google is Still #1

While longtime leading US search engine Google is no doubt paying close attention to Bing’s fast ascent since its June 2009 launch, Google still dominates the US search market by a comfortable market.
Google held 65.1% search share in August 2010, up 1% both month-over-month and year-over-year. It is also worth noting that Microsoft Bing officially started powering part of Yahoo searches starting in August 24, 2010. If Bing-powered search in August were combined pro-forma, it would represent a 26% share of search.
On a year-over-year basis, Ask.com significantly increased its search share growth rate while AOL experienced a substantial negative growth rate, but both providers still only account for about 2% of the total US search market each.
Bing Makes July Inroads

Google lost slight monthly US search market share to Bing in July 2010, according to recent data from Compete. Google maintained its dominant hold on the US online search market in July 2010 with 10.46 million queries, good for 72.9% of 14.34 million total queries. While this marked a 0.6% year-over-year improvement from 72.5% in July 2009, it was a 1.1% month-over-month decline from 73.8% in June 2010.

Third-ranked Microsoft (which primarily reflects the Bing engine) appears to have stolen some of Google’s monthly traffic. Bing recorded 1.52 million queries in July 2010, earning 10.6% market share. This was a 3.1% month-over month improvement from 10.3% share in June 2010 and more impressively, a 21.1% year-over-year improvement from 8.7% market share in July 2009.
Second-ranked Yahoo appears to have lost yearly share to Bing, although its monthly share increased. Yahoo reported 1.87 million queries in July 2010, 13.1% of the total market. Yahoo’s share rose 3% from 12.7% in June 2010 but fell 16.8% from 15.7% in July 2009.

It is time to start looking at Microsoft as a player in the search engine forum once again with adjustments made to Pay Per Click and SEO campaigns to focus on Google, Bing and Yahoo. 

Contact Internet Builder Consulting for your professional consultation on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Internet Marketing or Website Development today at 816-842-7774