Internet Search (Global Market)

Internet Search

• Yandex. Search
• Search of Mail.ru
• Google Search
• Panguso.com (Chinese Internet search engine)
• Baidu
• Panguso.com (Chinese Internet search engine)
• Satellite Search portal
• Internet search in Russia

History

2007

In December 2007, according to Net Applications, Google's share in the web search market in the world was 77.04%, Yahoo - 12.46%, MSN - 3.33%, Microsoft Live Search - 2.57%, AOL - 2.12%, Ask - 1.38%, AltaVista - 0.13%, Excite - 0.07%, Lycos - 0.02%, All the Web - 0.02%.

2009

In 2009, Hitwise released April statistics on the popularity of various search engines among American Internet users. According to the submitted data, Google continues to hold the leading position in the list of largest search engines. The market share of this company increased from 67.9% in April 2008 to 72.7% last month.

Google's main search competitors - Altaba (formerly Yahoo) and Microsoft - have somewhat lost ground. So, if a year ago Altaba (formerly Yahoo) controlled 20.3% of the market, then in April 2009 its share was 16.3%.

Well, Microsoft search services processed 5.7% of requests against 6.3% a year earlier.

The market share of the search engine Ask.com for the year decreased from 4.2 to 4.0%.

The total share of 49 other search engines whose work in the United States is monitored by Hitwise in April was 1.36%. Hitwise notes that the number of requests, consisting of eight or more words, increased by 18% over the year. The number of queries containing six and seven words increased by 5 and 8%, respectively. But most often, search engines deal with two words, which account for almost 23% of the total mass of queries.

Global Search Market, July 2009 - July 2008 (ComScore)

2011: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo join forces in search

In May 2011, the world's largest search engines - and Google Microsoft Bing - Yahoo decided to support a single set of schemes (page markup language tags). HTML If website developers use it, it will be much easier for search engines to extract structured information from materials and, thus, Internet search will become more effective. Schemas published on the site Schema.org. There are now over 100 different markup tags in the site directory. Tags are provided for many categories of structured data describing events, organizations, places, people, products, reviews, ratings, books and films, and so on.

The first popular project to supply web pages with structured markup was launched at one time by Yahoo, and it was called SearchMonkey, an IDC analyst comments. In 2010, however, Yahoo stopped supporting him. We can only welcome the emergence of a similar new project with the participation of Google and Microsoft, the analyst notes. The use of markup methods will Schema.org allow search engines to present search results in an enriched form, namely, competition is now unfolding in this area.

2012: Yandex has the fourth place in the world in the number of search queries

The Russian search engine Yandex took fourth place in the world in the number of requests processed, overtaking the search service of Microsoft and second only to the search engines Google, Baidu and Yahoo, GigaOm reports citing data from the analytical company ComScore.

According to statistics, the Russian search engine overtook its competitor from Microsoft (Bing service, search on the microsoft.com site and others) back in November, and in December strengthened its leadership. According to ComScore, in December the number of requests at Yandex amounted to 4.84 billion (2.8% of the world market), and Microsoft - 4.48 billion (2.5% of the world market).

At the same time, as GigaOm notes, Yandex is still inferior to search services from Microsoft in terms of the number of users - 74.4 million against 268.6 million people.

Google remains the largest global search engine - in December, its users left 114.73 billion requests (65.2%). In second place is the Chinese search engine Baidu - 14.4 billion requests (8.2%), and in third Yahoo with 8.63 billion requests in December (4.9%).

As for Russia, in our country, Yandex is the leading search engine, occupying, according to the Liveinterne service, about 60% of the market. In second place is Google with a share of about 26%.

Interesting facts

• The first product of 1Sboris Nuraliyev was a search engine of the same name. This name was invented because no more than 1C (seconds) was required to obtain the required information.