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.

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.

During the past decade, the expenditure on search engine advertising steadily increased in Denmark. TSearch engine ad spending amounted to **** billion Danish kroner in 2020. By comparison, the ad spend was *** billion kroner in 2009.

This statistic highlights the distribution of total and mobile organic search visits in the United States as of the first quarter of 2019, by engine. During the measured period, Google accounted for 92 percent of overall organic search engine visits in the United States.

Global Search Engine Optimization Services market size is expected to reach $173.89 billion by 2029 at 17.0%, segmented as by type, agencies seo services, freelancer seo services

In January 2020, Google accounted for 87.17 percent of single-word search queries worldwide. Yahoo generated 3.73 percent of single-word search during the same period. When looking at search queries with two words and more, Google absolutely dominated the market with over 94 percent market share in every query length.

As of the third quarter of 2024, around **** percent of consumers surveyed in Malaysia discovered new brands, products, and services through search engines advertising. By comparison, the share of consumers who found new brands from search engine ads was slightly higher in the third quarter of 2020, at **** percent.

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Digital Marketing Spending Market Size 2025-2029

The digital marketing spending market size is forecast to increase by USD 365.1 billion, at a CAGR of 8.5% between 2024 and 2029.

Major Market Trends & Insights

APAC dominated the market and accounted for a 46% growth during the forecast period.
By the Application - Mobile devices segment was valued at USD 299.90 billion in 2023
By the Type - Search ads segment accounted for the largest market revenue share in 2023

Market Size & Forecast

Market Opportunities: USD 112.99 billion
Market Future Opportunities: USD 365.10 billion 
CAGR : 8.5%
APAC: Largest market in 2023

Market Summary

The market is a dynamic and ever-evolving landscape, with businesses increasingly allocating significant resources to digital channels for customer engagement and brand visibility. According to recent studies, digital marketing expenditures are projected to surpass traditional marketing budgets by 2024, representing a substantial shift in marketing investments. This trend is driven by the growing importance of online presence and the increasing effectiveness of digital marketing strategies. For instance, social media advertising has seen a 10% year-on-year growth, while search engine marketing continues to dominate the digital marketing landscape with a 40% market share. Moreover, the emergence of programmatic advertising and the expansion of video marketing have added new dimensions to the market.
Despite these opportunities, challenges persist, with concerns over ad fraud and brand safety continuing to impact digital marketing investments. Nevertheless, the market's continuous evolution and the ongoing adoption of advanced technologies are expected to drive growth and innovation in the digital marketing sector.

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Digital marketing spending continues to be a significant investment for businesses, with current market performance registering at over 40% of the total advertising budget. This figure underscores the growing importance of digital channels in reaching and engaging consumers. Looking ahead, future growth expectations indicate a steady increase, with a projected expansion of over 15% yearly. A comparison of key numerical data reveals an intriguing trend. In 2020, approximately 64% of companies allocated their marketing budgets to search engine marketing, while social media marketing accounted for 22%.
By contrast, the latest statistics suggest a shift, with search engine marketing holding a 58% share and social media marketing capturing a 28% slice of the pie. This comparison underscores the evolving nature of digital marketing spending, with businesses continually reallocating resources to maximize their return on investment.

How is this Digitaling Spending Industry segmented?

The digitaling spending industry research report provides comprehensive data (region-wise segment analysis), with forecasts and estimates in 'USD billion' for the period 2025-2029, as well as historical data from 2019-2023 for the following segments.

Application

  Mobile devices
  Desktops


Type

  Search ads
  Display ads
  Social media
  E-mail marketing
  Others


Industries

  Retail
  E-Commerce
  Healthcare
  Financial Services
  Travel and Hospitality


Geography

  North America

    US
    Canada


  Europe

    France
    Germany
    Italy
    UK


  Middle East and Africa

    Egypt
    KSA
    Oman
    UAE


  APAC

    China
    India
    Japan


  South America

    Argentina
    Brazil


  Rest of World (ROW)

By Application Insights

The mobile devices segment is estimated to witness significant growth during the forecast period.

In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, businesses continue to allocate significant resources towards various online advertising formats and strategies. Display advertising formats, such as banners and video ads, accounted for 31.1% of total digital Ad Spending in 2020. Search advertising strategies, like pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, claimed a 41.5% share of the market. Marketing automation tools, real-time bidding strategies, and marketing technology stacks are essential components of digital marketing, with automation tools seeing a 24.4% increase in usage in 2021. Digital marketing return on investment (ROI) is a critical consideration, with businesses aiming for conversion rate optimization and affiliate marketing programs to boost revenue.

Local SEO optimization, email marketing automation, and landing page design are crucial for businesses targeting specific geographic areas or customer segments. Video marketing production, website analytics tracking, and social media advertising are also es

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.

How do Italian e-commerce companies invest in marketing and advertising? The results of a survey from 2023 revealed that approximately 24 percent of budget was for search engine marketing, a form of online marketing that aims at increasing visibility in search engine results. Moreover, 14 percent of resources invested by Italian e-commerce companies were allocated into search engine optimization.

 Investments are paramount  

Investments and innovation are key to the survival, well-being and development of any business. The e-commerce sector is no exception. With more and more players entering the market, it is vital for e-commerce companies to keep investing in order to increase their online presence and to expand their business. Italian e-commerce companies are aware of that and have been developing strategies to increase their business value and, specifically, to develop and expand their presence abroad.

  Social media allow to reach millions of potential customers  

Thanks to their unprecedented popularity, social media have become a powerful tool to reach millions of people. The number of individuals using social media in Italy reached 34 million in 2020 and is expected to increase in the following years. For this reason, despite not being fully satisfied with the results of their investments in social media campaigns, Italian e-commerce companies plan to increase their investments in this direction in the future. In particular, Facebook and Instagram appear to be the most effective social networks for e-commerce companies.

The Digital Advertising Agencies industry in the US has been driven by the shift from traditional print advertising to digital advertisements. In particular, strong demand for digital advertising from the retail, financial services, automotive and telecommunication sectors has sustained industry revenue. As more consumers generate website traffic through smartphones and tablets, many businesses have purchased digital advertising services to build brand awareness across multiple screens and platforms. To the industry's benefit, the rise in remote arrangements stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic caused more people to surf the internet while at home and reduced exposure to other forms of advertising. This motivated many companies to change their platforms and switch to digital advertising. Consequently, industry revenue is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 17.1%, including an expected 10.3% jump in 2024 to reach $52.4 billion. Many businesses sought advertising agencies to spread ads in digital formats, namely online, for streamed video content. Additionally, some industry clients have moved away from business models that require research and tangible results before the launch of an advertisement in favor of a testing environment that has evaluated the commercial viability of new ideas. For example, clients have obtained digital advertising services that measure online traffic demographics related to their social media websites before launching a product, greatly benefiting the industry. Still, the sharp rise in demand has eclipsed strong price-based competition, driving industry profitability upwards.Digital advertising agencies that can develop innovative tools, such as data mining, with applications for analyzing customer purchasing behavior will experience strong demand moving forward. As online media streaming services and social media continue to generate substantial internet traffic, many businesses will strengthen their investments in digital advertising. And as more product manufacturers sell their products directly online, retailers will fuel demand for activities like search engine visibility services to help them compete. As a result, industry revenue is expected to increase at a CAGR of 10.6% to $86.6 billion by the end of 2029.

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.

This statistic presents a ranking of the market capitalization of selected U.S. tech and internet companies in 2006, and from 2014 to 2020. Apple's market cap soared from ****** billion U.S. dollars in 2014 to **** trillion dollars in 2020. Apple's market cap pushed the company ahead of last year's leader Microsoft.

Public offerings of tech and internet companies

A public offering is the offering of securities of a company or a similar corporation to the public. Generally, the securities are to be listed on a stock exchange. The initial public offering (IPO) of a company occurs when a company offers its shares for the first time for public ownership and trading.

Hardware companies such as Apple or IBM have been traded publicly for a while but younger, online-based companies such as Google or most notably Facebook and most recently, Snap Inc. have been generating a lot of buzz surrounding their IPOs and subsequent stock prices. Facebook’s initial public offering was intensely hyped over months with projections of a 100 billion US dollar valuation but it dwindled down to a range of ** to ** billion US dollars prior to the listing.

Other tech stock performances have been more stable – both online retailer Amazon and search and digital advertising giant Google’s - now Alphabet's - shares have been on a more upwards trend. The most impressive development however came from Apple which totally changed its stock performance after the 2008 introduction of the iPhone. Since then, the company has been catapulted to the top of the smartphone market, multiplying its market capitalization as well as regularly being ranked as one of the most valuable brands worldwide.

In 2020, the revenue of search engine advertising accounted for the largest share of online advertising in Denmark, at **** percent. Marketplaces advertising accounted for **** percent of online ad revenue in Denmark that year.

Os documentos analisados estão compreendidos entre os períodos de janeiro de 2010 a junho de 2020, elencados por documento, Ano de publicação, autor, Título do documento.

Notice: You can check the new version 0.9.6 at the official page of Information Management Lab and at the Google Data Studio as well.

Description of the Report and Topic Justification

Now that the ICTs have matured, Information Organizations such as Libraries, Archives and Museums, also known as LAMs, proceed into the utilization of web technologies that are capable to expand the visibility and findability of their content. Within the current flourishing era of the semantic web, LAMs have voluminous amounts of web-based collections that are presented and digitally preserved through their websites. However, prior efforts indicate that LAMs suffer from fragmentation regarding the determination of well-informed strategies for improving the visibility and findability of their content on the Web (Vállez and Ventura, 2020; Krstić and Masliković, 2019; Voorbij, 2010). Several reasons related to this drawback. As such, administrators’ lack of data analytics competency in extracting and utilizing technical and behavioral datasets for improving visibility and awareness from analytics platforms; the difficulties in understanding web metrics that integrated into performance measurement systems; and hence the reduced capabilities in defining key performance indicators for greater usability, visibility, and awareness.

In this enriched and updated technical report, the authors proceed into an examination of 504 unique websites of Libraries, Archives and Museums from all over the world. It is noted that the current report has been expanded by up to 14,81% of the prior one Version 0.9.5 of 439 domains examinations. The report aims to visualize the performance of the websites in terms of technical aspects such as their adequacy to metadata description of their content and collections, their loading speed, and security. This constitutes an important stepping-stone for optimization, as the higher the alignment with the technical compliencies, the greater the users’ behavior and usability within the examined websites, and thus their findability and visibility level in search engines (Drivas et al. 2020; Mavridis and Symeonidis 2015; Agarwal et al. 2012).

One step further, within this version, we include behavioral analytics about users engagement with the content of the LAMs websites. More specifically, web analytics metrics are included such as Visit Duration, Pages per Visit, and Bounce Rates for 121 domains. We also include web analytics regarding the channels that these websites acquire their users, such as Direct traffic, Search Engines, Referral, Social Media, Email, and Display Advertising. SimilarWeb API was used to gather web data about the involved metrics.

In the first pages of this report, general information is presented regarding the names of the examined organizations. This also includes their type, their geographical location, information about the adopted Content Management Systems (CMSs), and web server software types of integration per website. Furthermore, several other data are visualized related to the size of the examined Information Organizations in terms of the number of unique webpages within a website, the number of images, internal and external links and so on.

Moreover, as a team, we proceed into the development of several factors that are capable to quantify the performance of websites. Reliability analysis takes place for measuring the internal consistency and discriminant validity of the proposed factors and their included variables. For testing the reliability, cohesion, and consistency of the included metrics, Cronbach’s Alpha (a), McDonald’s ω and Guttman λ-2 and λ-6 are used.
- For Cronbach’s, a range of .550 up to .750 indicates an acceptable level of reliability and .800 or higher a very good level (Ursachi, Horodnic, and Zait, 2015). - McDonald’s ω indicator has the advantage to measure the strength of the association between the proposed variables. More specifically, the closer to .999 the higher the strength association between the variables and vice versa (Şimşek and Noyan, 2013). - Gutman’s λ-2 and λ-6 work verifiably to Cronbach’s a as they estimate the trustworthiness of variance of the gathered web analytics metrics. Low values less than .450 indicate high bias among the harvested web metrics, while values higher than .600 and above increase the trustworthiness of the sample (Callender and Osburn, 1979). -Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity indicators are used for measuring the cohesion of the involved metrics. KMO and Bartlett’s test indicates that the closer the value is to .999 amongst the involved items, the higher the cohesion and consistency of them for potential categorization (Dziuban and Shirkey, 1974). Both descriptive statistics and reliability analyses were performed via JASP 0.14.1.0 software.

To this end, this report contributes to the knowledge expansion of all the interest parties and stakeholders related to the research topic of improving the visibility and findability of LAMs and their content on the Web. It constitutes a well-informed compass, that could be adopted by such organizations, in order to implement potential strategies that combine both domain knowledge and data-driven culture in terms of awareness optimization on the internet realm.

The Research Team Behind the Project

The whole project is managed and optimized on a weekly basis by a big young and smiley team of scientists (alphabetically referred in the next section). All of them are undergraduate students at the Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies of the University of West Attica.

They are responsible for the overall process of publishing the Technical Report which includes the initial organizations’ identification, and subsequently, websites testing, data gathering, curation and pre-processing, analysis, validation and visualization. Of course, the Team will continue to expand the capabilities of this report while involving new features, metrics, and further information regarding Libraries, Archives and Museums websites from all over the world.

Notice: includes a plurality of technical and behavioral factors and variables concerning the examined information organizations' websites. Potentially, more features will be included on the next versions.

Report Version 0.9.6 Correspondence: Ioannis C. Drivas (PhDc) idrivas@uniwa.gr | http://users.uniwa.gr/idrivas/ Research Lab of Information Management Department of Archival, Library Science and Information Studies University of West Attica.

Much like the alternatives to mainstream social media platforms, China has pioneered the production of search engines that provide an alternative to Google and Bing. Some of the most prominent Chinese search engines are ***** and ****, with a combined market share of ***** percent. Baidu – China’s internet giant Since its founding in 2000, Baidu’s revenue surged swiftly and totaled about ****** billion yuan in 2024. A majority of the revenue was generated through online marketing services. However, the operating profit bounced back after having contracted in 2019 and 2021. Baidu used to control about ** to ** percent of China’s online search market, a new contender Haosou emerged and is expected to close the gap shortly. Other search engines in China In a country with around *** million online search users, there are multiple local options besides Baidu. In a 2023 consumer survey in China, Shenma and Quark Search were rated the best in user experience whereas Haosou or 360 Search led the pack in search response speed and the diversity in search results.

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The e-commerce technology market share is expected to increase by USD 10.57 billion from 2020 to 2025, and the market’s growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 19.07%.

This e-commerce technology market research report provides valuable insights on the post-COVID-19 impact on the market, which will help companies evaluate their business approaches. Furthermore, this report extensively covers e-commerce technology market segmentation by application (B2C and B2B) and geography (North America, APAC, Europe, South America, and MEA). The e-commerce technology market report also offers information on several market vendors, including Adobe Inc., BigCommerce Holdings Inc., commercetools GmbH, HCL Technologies Ltd., Open Text Corp., Oracle Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., SAP SE, and Shopify Inc. among others.

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E-Commerce Technology Market: Key Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

The increasing e-commerce sales are notably driving the e-commerce technology market growth, although factors such as growing concerns over data privacy and security may impede the market growth. Our research analysts have studied the historical data and deduced the key market drivers and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the e-commerce technology industry. The holistic analysis of the drivers will help in deducing end goals and refining marketing strategies to gain a competitive edge.

Key E-Commerce Technology Market Driver

One of the key factors driving the e-commerce technology market is increasing e-commerce sales. The e-commerce industry is progressing quickly, owing to various factors, such as the growing tech-savvy population, increasing Internet penetration, and the rising use of smartphones. The demand for globally manufactured products is also fueling growth by generating cross-border e-commerce sales. Furthermore, the presence of various multiple payment options, such as credit and debit cards, Internet banking, electronic wallets, and cash-on-delivery (COD), has led to a paradigm shift in the purchasing patterns of people from brick-and-mortar stores to online shopping. Also, e-commerce platforms not only enable consumers to buy goods easily as they do not have the physical barriers involved in offline stores but also help them in making better and more informed decisions, as consumers can view multiple user reviews on the website before purchasing a product. The growth of the e-commerce sector directly impacts the e-commerce technology market. All these factors have increased the demand for e-commerce software and services from end-users. Hence, the growth of the e-commerce industry will boost the growth of the global e-commerce technology market during the forecast period.

Key E-Commerce Technology Market Trend

The rising focus on developing headless CMS is another factor supporting the e-commerce technology market growth in the forecast period. The increasing number of touchpoints for customers, such as IoT devices, smartphones, and progressive web apps, is making it difficult for legacy e-commerce websites to manage demand from customers. Even though most retailers have not embraced the IoT, more customers are exploring new product information through devices, such as IoT-enabled speakers, smart voice assistance, and in-store interfaces. To resolve this issue and provide a more effective user experience, vendors are offering a headless e-commerce architecture. Headless e-commerce architecture is a back-end-only content management system (CMS). Furthermore, vendors are offering headless CMS solutions to simplify e-commerce applications and provide flexible software packaging for their clients. For instance, Magento, a subsidiary of Adobe Inc., offers GraphQL, a flexible and performant application programming interface (API), which allows users to build custom front ends, including headless storefronts, advanced web applications (PWA), and mobile apps. Such developments are expected to provide high growth opportunities for market vendors during the forecast period.

Key E-Commerce Technology Market Challenge

Growing concerns over data privacy and security will be a major challenge for the e-commerce technology market during the forecast period. Data privacy and security risks are the major barriers to the adoption of e-commerce technology. Hackers are constantly trying to search for vulnerabilities and loopholes in e-commerce infrastructure. Although e-commerce players, vendors, and end-user organizations try to adopt proactive prevention plans to counter security breaches within their systems, the rise in the number of e-commerce website hacking and ransomware attacks has resulted in financial and data loss for companies. In addition, public cloud in

Between 2020 and 2025, mobile internet advertising in Brazil is expected to increase from 1.24 billion to 2.14 billion U.S. dollars whereas fixed-line internet advertising from 1.38 billion to two billion U.S. dollars.

As of January 2020, Semrush was the leading search engine optimization (SEO) software as a service (SaaS) company, with *** million U.S. dollars in annual recurring revenue. Scorpion ranked second, with a revenue of *** million dollars.