Analysis by SparkToro of Jumpshot data from 100B searches/month finds these search-share statistics for the USA in 2018:
Google properties:
- Google Search 68.30%
- Google Images 21.46%
- YouTube 2.79%
- Google Maps 0.83%
Others:
- Yahoo 1.76%
- Bing 1.58%
- Amazon 1.40%
- Facebook 1.09%
- All others combined 0.79%
And for the European Union:
Google properties:
- Google Search 69.27%
- Google Images 21.96%
- YouTube 3.99%
- Google Maps 0.85%
Others:
- Facebook 1.31%
- All others combined 2.62% (all individual shares <1%)
And also in 2018 Google properties had combined search shares greater than 90% for each of these EU countries:
- Germany
- UK
- France
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Poland
- Spain
The conclusions to be drawn from these numbers are obvious:
- Throughout the Western world, for visibility in Internet searches for most business purposes, only Google matters.
- Accordingly, now and for the foreseeable future, anyone seeking sales or other forms of valuable conversions online needs to be aware of, and play by, Google's rules.
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