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Specialists of the research association StatCounter prepared statistics for the first quarter of this year, which showed that the search engine Microsoft Bing is the second most popular in the world. For example, in February 2011 the share of Bing was 4.4%. At the same time the search engine Yahoo! controlled 3.9% in this field over the same period of time. These results were observed for the first time, as previously it was difficult to get around Yahoo! on the world market of a web search.
In actual fact, as you clearly observe, all this fuss is happening behind Google, the main opponent of the listed above companies, which accounts for 90% of the Internet search market. Number of online users of a search giant Google also continues to grow. This global tendency is observed in the American market. A difference is that Yahoo! still held the second place in the list of top search engines with a 9.7% market against 9.0% of Bing.
Other analytical companies provide slightly different results, especially concerning shares of such companies as Microsoft Bing and Yahoo! Thus, according to comScore, at the beginning of this year, the share of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's search market, in the American web search market accounted for respectively 64.6, 17.9 and 12.8%. But, regardless of the exact figures, the overall tendency remains the same.