Friday, March 12, 2010

Search Engine Ranking Data 2008 to 2010

Search Engine Ranking
Whenever comScore, Inc. releases their search engine rankings, everyone who blogs about search engines or SEM comments on the new statistics. Since comScore just released their February 2010 results I've been reading lots of posts about the new data.

I have not seen anything that shows the results over time, so I thought I'd take a bit of time to put something together. The following chart shows the U.S. search engine ranking from comScore for the top five search engines from January 2008 to February 2010.
The graph shows data for all Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft sites. (Google's share includes youtube.com.)

I find it interesting that up until May 2009 when Bing was launched Google's share of searches were rising while the other four search engines shares declined. Since then Google's share has remained relatively unchanged, Bing's has risen and the other three engine's shares have declined. Although it seems that most of Bing's growth is due to loses by Yahoo.
Download the excel file used to generate these chart.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post. Putting the information into a graph was a good idea.

Eric F.

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