Which Are The Ten Most Popular Search Engines Around The Globe?
(1)Google: tops the list and accounts for responding to around 67% search queries in the world. The company was founded in 1998 but just after a decade, it clearly dominates this genre.
(2)Yahoo: Almost 7.8% of the search queries route through Yahoo and it makes Yahoo the second most popular search engine in the world. It is especially popular in Japan, where it handles 51% of the search queries.
(3)Baidu: The Chinese giant stands at number three in terms of handing search queries in the world but its real strength lies in the Chinese market; its market share in China is 62.1%. Its handles 7% search queries globally and it is the world’s largest non-English search engine.
(4)Bing: It is the result of what the English media often terms as the ‘IT Wars’. It’s the Microsoft’s response to break Google’s dominance and create some credible competition. Bing accounts for 2.9% of the search queries.
(5)EBay: This online auction and buying-selling website comes at the number five when it comes to answering online queries. The website responds to around 1.5% global search queries.
(6)Naver: It handles more than 70% Korean search queries, is the sixth most popular search engine world wide with 1.3% global queries routing through Naver. It was founded in 1999 by ex-Samsung employees and some of its qualities were later adopted by Google.
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(7)Ask.com: It’s the seventh most popular search engine and handles 1.1% search queries worldwide. The company was founded in 1996.
(8)Yandex (Russian: ???????): It is the second most popular non-English web portal in the world. It is primarily a Russian language search engine and accounts for answering 1.1% search queries worldwide. It holds 44% of the Russian market and it is the second largest search engine in Europe.
(9)AOL LLC: The ninth most used search engine in the world and accounts for 0.9% of the world search engine market.
(10)Facebook: This is the world’s most popular social networking website with over 400 million users and handles 0.7% of the global search traffic.
