In 2024, search engine Daum accounted for **** percent of search engine usage in South Korea. Daum had been losing ground during the last few years and placed far behind the leading search engines on the Korean market, Google and Naver.

As of March 2025, Google continued to dominate the global search engine industry by far, with an 89.62 percent market share. However, this stronghold may be showing signs of erosion, with its share across all devices dipping to its lowest point in over two decades. Bing, Google's closest competitor, currently holds a market share of 4.01 percent across, while Russia-based Yandex hikes to the third place with a share of around 2.51 percent. Competitive landscape and regional variations While Google's overall dominance persists, other search engines carve out niches in various markets and platforms. Bing holds a 12.21 percent market share across desktop devices worldwide, as Yandex and Baidu have found success inside and outside of their home markets. Yandex is used by over 63 percent of Russian internet users, but Baidu has seen its market share significantly in China As regional variations highlight the importance of local players in challenging Google's global supremacy, the company is likely to face more challenges with the AI-powered online search trend and increasing regulatory scrutiny. Search behavior and antitrust concerns Despite facing more competition, Google remains deeply ingrained in users' online habits. In 2024, "Google" itself was the most popular search query on its own platform, followed by "YouTube" - another Google-owned property. This self-reinforcing ecosystem has drawn scrutiny from regulators, with the European Commission imposing millionaire antitrust fines on the company. As its influence extends beyond search into various online services, the company's market position continues to be a subject of debate among industry watchdogs and authorities worldwide.

In March 2025, the Google Chrome browser was the leader in the mobile internet browser market, with a share of 66.75 percent. As the runner-up, Apple’s Safari had a market share of around 23 percent. Other contenders in the field include Samsung Internet and Opera. Browser market Around half of the world’s population uses the internet regularly, and web browsers serve as the channel through which users from across the globe access the internet each day. As in the mobile browser market, Chrome is also the dominant figure in the overall web browser market. In December 2024, Chrome for Android and Chrome occupied the top two spots in the global web browser market. Chrome’s dominance is the most prominent in the desktop browser market: in 2024, Google’s popular browser accounted for nearly 67 percent of the market, miles ahead of its competitors. Google Chrome Released in 2008 by Google, Chrome has become one of the tech giant's most successful products over the years, together with their search engine Google Search, mobile operating system Android, e-mail service Gmail, etc. The success of Chrome has led to the expansion of the brand name into the company's other products such as Chrome OS, Chromecast, and Chromebook.

This statistic presents the market share of leading search engines in China as of August 2014, sorted by unique visitors. As of August 2014, Baidu accounted for 54.02 percent of search visits in China.

In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Google's revenue is largely made up by advertising revenue, which amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. As of October 2024, parent company Alphabet ranked first among worldwide internet companies, with a market capitalization of 2,02 billion U.S. dollars. Google’s revenue Founded in 1998, Google is a multinational internet service corporation headquartered in California, United States. Initially conceptualized as a web search engine based on a PageRank algorithm, Google now offers a multitude of desktop, mobile and online products. Google Search remains the company’s core web-based product along with advertising services, communication and publishing tools, development and statistical tools as well as map-related products. Google is also the producer of the mobile operating system Android, Chrome OS, Google TV as well as desktop and mobile applications such as the internet browser Google Chrome or mobile web applications based on pre-existing Google products. Recently, Google has also been developing selected pieces of hardware which ranges from the Nexus series of mobile devices to smart home devices and driverless cars. Due to its immense scale, Google also offers a crisis response service covering disasters, turmoil and emergencies, as well as an open source missing person finder in times of disaster. Despite the vast scope of Google products, the company still collects the majority of its revenue through online advertising on Google Site and Google network websites. Other revenues are generated via product licensing and most recently, digital content and mobile apps via the Google Play Store, a distribution platform for digital content. As of September 2020, some of the highest-grossing Android apps worldwide included mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon Go, and Coin Master.

The multinational technological corporation Baidu Inc reported an annual revenue of around 18.24 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Headquartered in Beijing, the company had rapidly grown into one of the Chinese prominent developers of internet and artificial intelligence services and products. Its Baidu.com is one of the world’s largest and China’s most popular search engine websites. China’s search engine market The number of search engine users in China amounted to 878 million in 2024, a majority of whom carried out their search activities on mobile devices. China’s search engine providers operate in a multibillion-yuan market. Forecasts for 2025 predicted the market size will reach 168 billion yuan. Of this, Baidu holds the largest market shares in terms of page views as well as the most preferred mobile search engine. Baidu – products and services Baidu’s global services range from algorithm, enterprise, and image searches to navigation, online storage and news. The wildly popular DuerOS voice platform enabled smart speakers are exemplar of Baidu’s progress in operating with AI. Its online video streaming platform iQiyi, which is often touted as “China’s Netflix” has proved to be a viable business. However, the tech giant still primarily relies on online marketing services for revenue generation.

The statistic depicts the number of tablet users in China from 2013 to 2018. For 2016 the number of tablet users in China is forecasted to rise to more than *** million.

Tablet users in China - additional information

The number of tablet users in China is projected to double from *** million in 2013 to over *** million in 2018. Around ** percent of the country’s population owned a tablet device in 2013, a figure that will rise to over ** percent by 2018. Some of the most popular activities undertaken on tablets in China in 2014 include using search engines and watching online videos. The growth of the technological industry in China can also be seen by the increase in popularity of smartphones, with over half of the population forecast to own a smart device by 2018.

In 2013, Apple’s iOS was the most dominant tablet operating system in China based on its share of internet traffic, with over ** percent of internet visits made on iPads. However, Apple saw its market share in China fall dramatically in 2014 as Android became the most used tablet operating system for surfing the internet. The Google-backed company held a share of **** percent in the country in 2014 whilst iOS’s share more than halved to **** percent.

The forecasted growth in tablet users in China reflects the global trend. In 2014, there were over *** million tablet users worldwide, equating to just over 20 percent of the world’s population and this figure is projected to reach **** billion users by 2018.

Advertising media owners' revenue is expected to reach ** billion British pounds in 2022, with close to ** percent attributed to internet advertising. The next highest spending areas for advertising include television and newsbrands. However, newsbrands and magazines are the two media that have seen net adverting spend fall during measured period. Digital and social media spend Internet advertising spend accounts for close to ********** of the total spend in the UK. Advertising via the internet allows advertisers to bring promotional content to consumers using online technologies. It includes, among others, advertisements placed on social media platforms and search engines, banner ads on desktop as well as mobile websites and promotional messages delivered via email. Growth of media spend in the UK Whether it is for the purpose of increasing sales, product awareness, increasing market share or to promote brand loyalty, the simple fact is that brands will continue to advertise to try and put themselves ahead of the competition. In 2022, the highest growth in ad spend in the UK is forecast for cinema, at over *** percent, followed by digital out-of-home at ** percent. In total, the industry is expected to see **** percent year-on-year growth that year.

In 2022, global internet advertising revenue stood at *** billion U.S. dollars. The source projected the revenue would increase to *** billion by 2027. Internet advertising in the U.S. – additional informationInternet or online advertising encompasses a range of formats including email, search engine, social media, display and mobile advertising. Display advertising uses pictures, videos, text and graphics to target consumers and ads are usually matched with potential consumers through the use of cookies.The leading internet display advertisers in the United States in 2014, were ranked regarding their measured advertising spending. The resulting list, which only took into account spending on digital display advertising, saw Comcast ranked first. The American mass media company, founded in Mississippi in 1963, spent ***** million U.S. dollars on online display advertising in 2014. The runner up to Comcast was the Texas based telecommunications company AT&T with a spending of *** million U.S. dollars.The investments made in online advertising have grown substantially in the recent past. The revenue generated by online advertising in the U.S. has been recorded from the first quarter in 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2015. In the first quarter of 2007, online spending revenue amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars. By the fourth quarter of 2013, this figure had risen to ***** billion U.S. dollars, growing further to ***** billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2015.A breakdown of the online advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015, by type reveals which forms of internet advertising was most invested in, and perhaps deemed the most useful to a company operating online. It was revealed that search advertising, which increases a website or company’s visibility on search engine result pages, held the largest share of online advertising with ** percent. Banner and mobile advertising rounded off the top three.