The leading Internet marketing research company, ComScore released figures of the top 10 search engines for 2009 on January 24, 2010. Worldwide, there were 131 billion searches conducted globally in December 2009, a 46% growth over the same time last year. Two Chinese major search engines,
Baidu.com and
Alibaba.com, are included in the list.
Alibaba
Hong Kong-listed Alibaba.com handled 1.1 billion searches with a minor decrease of 1%. It is a business-to-business unit in Alibaba Group that includes business-to-business international trade, online retail and payment platforms and data-centric cloud computing services.
Ask The Ask search engine grew 43% to 1.5 billion searches. The engine allows the users to get answers to the questions people ask and people can use traditional keyword search to find information they want. The results are what really make Ask.com to stand out. The super-clean interface rivals with the other major search engines and the search options are as good as Google.
Facebook The social-networking site Facebook handled 1.6 billion searches with a 43% growth rate. It is the most popular for uploading photos, with 50 billion pictures uploaded.
Yandex Russian search engine Yandex is the fastest growing search engines among the top 10. It grew 91% to 1.9 billion searches.
NHN NHN's Naver search engine ranked sixth at 2 billion searches with a 9% growth rate. It is a popular search engine headquartered in South Korea with branches in Japan, China and the United States.
eBay Number five eBay.com handled 2% of the world’s searches and grew 58% to 2.1 billion searches. It is an American online auction and shopping website with operations localized in over thirty countries around the world.
Microsoft Microsoft's Microsoft’s new Bing search engine ranked 4th with 4.1 billion searches, commanding only about 3% of the total market, but Microsoft also saw the greatest gain (70%) among the top 5 search engines.
Baidu The Nasdaq-listed Chinese search engine, Baidu ranked 3rd with 8.5 billion searches, accounting for 6.5% of worldwide searches and growing 7% compared to the year 2008. Baidu is often referred to as Chinese version of Google due to the popularity of the Chinese-language search engine.
Yahoo Yahoo is still holding 2nd place with 9.4 billion searches, accounting for 7% of the global search share and registering a 13% growth.
Google According to ComScore, Google is clearly a dominant front runner with 87.8 billion searches, accounting for 67% of the 131 billion searches that happened overall and registering a 58% year-on-year growth in 2009.
