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Is Google more dominant than you think?

Here’s how search engine market share broke down in September 2010:

  • Google: 66.1% of all searches
  • Yahoo!: 16.7%
  • Bing: 11.2%
  • Ask: 3.7%
  • AOL: 2.3%

In the same month, Rap Genius got 146k visits from search, 98.45% of which came from Google:

  • Google: 98.45%
  • Yahoo: .43%
  • Search.com: .37%
  • Bing: .34%
  • Ask: .21%
  • AOL: .19%

What’s going on here? Are Rap Genius visitors that much more likely to use Google? Is Google that much better for lyric searches? Does Google have the search game completely sewn up (despite what most people seem to think?)

Posted October 26th, 2010