comScore & Hitwise Release April Search Market Share Reports

May 14, 2012 - 7:54 am 1 by
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comScore & HitwiseHitwise released their April search market share report and comScore released theirs.

Both sources say that Bing powers just about 30% search market share (between Microsoft and Yahoo properties together). Hitwise says Google dropped in market share, whereas comScore says they have grown.

Here are the quick snapshots:

Hitwise:

Hitwise Search Market Share

comScore:

comScore Search Market Share

A WebmasterWorld thread, which is a very pro-Bing forum these days, talks about how Hitwise numbers are right.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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