As of March 2025, Google represented 79.1 percent of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Despite being much ahead of its competitors, this represents the lowest share ever recorded by the search engine in these devices for over two decades. Meanwhile, its long-time competitor Bing accounted for 12.21 percent, as tools like Yahoo and Yandex held shares of over 2.9 percent each. Google and the global search market Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the company has dominated the search engine market, while the shares of all other tools has been rather lopsided. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising. Its parent corporation, Alphabet, was one of the biggest internet companies worldwide as of 2024, with a market capitalization of 2.02 trillion U.S. dollars. The company has also expanded its services to mail, productivity tools, enterprise products, mobile devices, and other ventures. As a result, Google earned one of the highest tech company revenues in 2024 with roughly 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Search engine usage in different countries Google is the most frequently used search engine worldwide. But in some countries, its alternatives are leading or competing with it to some extent. As of the last quarter of 2023, more than 63 percent of internet users in Russia used Yandex, whereas Google users represented little over 33 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong decrease in the percentage of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. By the end of 2024, nearly half of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 21 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo.

Google is not only popular in its home country, but is also the dominant internet search provider in many major online markets, frequently generating between ** and ** percent of desktop search traffic. The search engine giant has a market share of over ** percent in India and accounted for the majority of the global search engine market, way ahead of other competitors such as Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu. Google’s online dominance All roads lead to Rome, or if you are browsing the internet, all roads lead to Google. It is hard to imagine an online experience without the online behemoth, as the company offers a wide range of online products and services that all seamlessly integrate with each other. Google search and advertising are the core products of the company, accounting for the vast majority of the company revenues. When adding this up with the Chrome browser, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google’s ownership of the Android mobile operating system, and various other consumer and enterprise services, Google is basically a one-stop shop for online needs. Google anti-trust rulings However, Google’s dominance of the search market is not always welcome and is keenly watched by authorities and industry watchdogs – since 2017, the EU commission has fined Google over ***** billion euros in antitrust fines for abusing its monopoly in online advertising. In March 2019, European Commission found that Google violated antitrust regulations by imposing contractual restrictions on third-party websites in order to make them less competitive and fined the company *** billion euros.

In January 2025, Google accounted for 93.89 percent of the global mobile search engine market worldwide. Ever since the release of Google Search in 1997, the company's search engine has dominated the search engine market, maintaining a margin of more than 93 percentage points since January 2015. Currently owned by the parent corporation Alphabet Inc., Google has one of the highest tech company revenues, with roughly 305.63 billion U.S. dollars in 2023.

In January 2025, Google remained by far the most popular search engine in the UK, holding a market share of ***** percent across all devices. That month, Bing had a market share of approximately **** percent in second place, followed by Yahoo! with approximately **** percent. The EU vs Google Despite Google’s dominance of the search engine market, maintaining its position at the top has not been a smooth ride. Google’s market share saw a decline in the summer of 2018, plummeting to an all-time-low in July. The search engine experienced a similar dip in June and July 2017. These two low points coincided with the European Commission’s antitrust charges against the company, both of which were unprecedented in the now decade-long duel between both parties. As skepticism towards search engine platforms grows in line with public concern regarding censorship and data privacy, alternative services like Duckduckgo offer users both information protection and unfiltered results. Despite this, it still held less than *** percent of the industry’s market share as of June 2021. Perception of fake news in the UK According to a questionnaire conducted in the United Kingdom in 2018, **** percent of respondents had come across inaccurate news on social media at least once before. Rising concerns over fake news, or information which has been manipulated to influence the public has been a hot topic in recent years. The younger generation however, remains skeptical with nearly **** of Generation Z claiming to be either unconcerned about fake news, or believed that it did not exist altogether.

This statistic shows the market share of search engines in the United States in December 2008 to 2020. In December 2020, Verizon Media's search market share was **** percent, down *** percent from the previous year. The subsidiary was formed in 2017 by Verizon Communications as a merge between newly acquired Yahoo! and AOL.

In January 2025 Google represented a market of share of ***** percent across all devices, maintaining its post as the most popular search engine in the United Kingdom since January 2018. Google competitors in the UK After Google, the second most popular search engine site in the UK is Bing. Bing had a market share of **** percent as of January 2024. Yahoo! had a *** percent share of the search engine market in the UK during the same month. Search engines in the UK Further information on the use of search engines in the United Kingdom can be found in the Statista dossier on search engines in the United Kingdom, and more information on Google in the UK can be found in the Google in the United Kingdom Statista dossier.  

In February 2025, Microsoft Sites handled **** percent of all search queries in the United States. During the same period, Verizon Media (formerly known as Yahoo and Oath) had a search market share of little less than ** percent. Market leader Google generated **** percent of all core search queries in the United States.

In April 2025, Google accounted for ***** percent of the search market in the United States across all devices. Bing followed as the second leading search provider in the United States during the last examined month, with a share of around *** percent, among the engine's highest quotas registered in the country to date.

Google was by far the most used search engine in Germany, holding a market share of ***** percent in May 2025. Bing ranked second, with a market share of approximately **** percent in the same month, followed by Yandex, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo!, with shares of **** percent, **** percent and **** percent.

In April 2025, Google accounted for over ** percent of the mobile search market in the United States. With approximately ** percent reach among mobile audiences, Google Search is also one of the most popular mobile apps in the United States. DuckDuckGo and Yahoo! followed as the leading mobile search providers in the United States during the last examined month, with shares of around *** percent each.

In April 2024, Google was the most popular search engine in the UK, holding a market share of ***** percent across all devices. Bing had a relatively large market share of approximately **** percent in second place, followed by Yahoo! with approximately **** percent.

As of January 2025, Google accounted for a market share of almost ** percent in the Asian search market. Yandex followed, with a market share of about *** percent.

In May 2025, the online search engine Bing accounted for 4.11 percent of the European search market across all devices, while market leader Google held a search traffic share of around 89.45 percent. Meanwhile, Yandex's market share was 3.72 percent, while Yahoo! represented around 1.08 percent.

From January 2018 to May 2025, Google was by far the most used search engine in France, reaching **** percent in the last analyzed month. Bing and Yandex followed, with market shares of **** percent and **** percent each in the same month.

In 2024, Naver held around ***** percent of South Korea's mobile search engine market share. Following that was Google with a market share of more than ** percent. On dekstop Google dominated the South Korean search engine market.

In April 2023, search giant Google accounted for more than 92 percent of the search engine market in Canada. Bing was ranked a distant second with a 4.72 percent share, while Yahoo! represented 1.46 percent of the country's online search market share.

In June 2025, Google was the leader among search engines in Norway, with 90.49 percent of the market share. Bing and YANDEX, followed, accounting for market shares of roughly 3.79 percent and 3.14 percent respectively. The figures were similar for desktop search engines in the country. Google’s growth can be seen in the company’s revenue figures over the years, with a dramatic increase from 0.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2002, to over 348 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. What were Norwegians "googling"? Google offers limitless information online, but the most commonly entered search term by Norwegians in 2024 was “Google”. “VG”, abbreviated from “Verdens Gang”, or “The course of the World” was the leading online newspaper in Norway and ranked second. Google search engine worldwide Google has been the global leader among search engines for the past decade. Despite a slight decrease in its market share, the figures have been relatively stable throughout the observed period. As of March 2025, Google accounted for over 79 percent of the global search engine market.

Google held the majority of the market share of leading search engines in Sweden in June 2025, with 89.35 percent. Bing and DuckDuckGo followed with around 5.98 percent and 2.06 percent of the market share, respectively. There was a slight difference, regarding mobile search engines and desktop search engines. While Google was still the leader in both categories, its share was over 98 percent for mobile engines and roughly 87 percent for desktop engines . Google Google search has been widely used over the past years. According to the source, it was used most frequently among people between the ages of 16 and 25. Furthermore, 74 percent of them reported to have used it daily in 2018. Worldwide Regarding Google’s market share worldwide, it has slightly decreased over the years. It was reported to be highest in April 2012, when Google search reached 91.7 percent global market share. It amounted to roughly 79.1 percent as of March 2025. Despite that, Google search has been the worldwide leader over the evaluated period, followed by bing, Yahoo! and YANDEX.

In June 2025, Google was the leading mobile search engine by market share in France, representing 92.92 of the traffic to search tools in the country. Meanwhile, YANDEX and Ecosia followed with shares of 2.57 percent and 1.36 percent.

In January 2025, Google's mobile search market share in the United Kingdom was 97.55 percent. Despite the search engine remaining with a similar referral share for mobile devices throughout the years, Google's quota on desktop devices in the UK has significantly reduced during the latest analyzed month.