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Google gets less than 90% of search traffic for the first time in 10 years (www.androidauthority.com)

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The statistics show Google had less than 90% search market share in Q4 of 2024, but which competitors are benefiting?

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago

Makes sense. Google is actively making their search engine worse to try to monetize it more, so other options have become much better than Google. Also their results seem to have steeply declined in the last few years. I get much better results on DDG (so, Bing by proxy).

[-] superkret@feddit.org 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

tl/dr: Bing is second with 4% and Yandex is third.
My guess is people use Bing when Microsoft literally forces them to or they don't know how to change it (start menu search, Edge default), for downloadable images, and porn.
Yandex is the only search engine available without fuss in Russia.

I'm honestly really surprised that Baidu doesn't have ~20% of the market.
Can someone who knows more than me about China maybe explain?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 months ago

Regarding Baidu it's probably a statistic collection problem, very common in regards to measuring Chinese Internet usage

[-] Fusion@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago

I'm using Ecosia, which is (as far as I know) based on Bing and I really like it. The search quality really isn't bad at all. (and I'm searching a lot online) Also it feels more to what I'm used to, without AI answers and other stuff that I don't like at the top of the results.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ecosia uses Bing and Google. Which search provider it uses for you depends on your location and settings you can specify.

https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/579-search-results-providers
(I have no idea whether that link will show you German or English text depending on where you are, and frankly, I hate the modern internet a bit for things like that.)

[-] seanom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I use bing for the points. Free gamepass.

[-] holo@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

anywhere where the US government is less trustworthy than Russia

oof, that's a difficult decision...

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

These are Statcounter stats, which are typically put together by tacking traffic reported by web sources. I'm guessing Chinese search may not be referring too many people to the sites that contribute info to Statcounter.

Also worth noting that AI search isn't counted hear, as far as the original source can tell. Maybe Google users are more likely to migrate to AI solutions (or just have more AI solutions available) than some of the alternatives listed here.

[-] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Then it probably also contributed to it, that if we can assume most users of Baidu are Chinese people in mainland China, then most of them wouldn't be visit many non-domestic/non-Chinese website where StatCounter could get their tracking traffic reports from, because of a combination of CCP's internet censorship that practically runs on a whitelist and blocks most nondomest website by default, as well as language barrier since most PRC residents have barely any functional English skill (like the ability to actually understand others in English or express ideas in English, as opposed to merely earn scores on a standardized English exam).

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I don't know what stats they can aggregate, but I imagine they skew non-Chinese.

I'm very skeptical of Statcounter stuff in general, although it's at least apples to apples if you're tracking something over time. Google is likely dropping in usage. Where that's going is maybe a bridge too far for what's being collected.

[-] boreengreen@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I'd like to believe it's cause of the poor search results comming from google.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Ecosia has gotten pretty good the last few years.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I use kagi and pay with my crypto

[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Honest question - why the down votes? I've used the free Kagi searches for several quite specific things that ddg (Bing) anf Google failed and found the results very well-suited. I just haven't exhausted my 300 free searches yet so haven't had a need. What does the community have a negative opinion about it for?

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe the crypto thing, but also no sure.

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