Who’s the most popular search engine?
We all know really that Google is the most popular and most used search engine globally but why and who is competing with it? Google steadily holds 90% of the search engine market share, not leaving a lot of room for any other SE’s to come up. Yahoo! is second in line with 5% of this global market and then Bing in third place with about 3%, which is slightly more than the old MSN search engine had. The other 2% is dithered out between other large search engines that are used in certain areas of the world like Ask or Baidu. When it comes to search engine optimisation we only really pay attention to those top 3 search engines even thought there are thousands of them all over the internet. SEO is all about the search engines and praying up to them like they are our God’s, but there’s no point trying to optimise against the smaller SE’s as they won’t bring you enough traffic, you should target those largest in your geographical location. If you search ‘search engines’ in Google surprisingl