As of January 2025, online search engine Bing accounted for 12.23 percent of the global desktop search market, while market leader Google had a share of around 78.83 percent. Meanwhile, Yahoo's market share was 3.07 percent. Google in the global 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 2023, with a market capitalization of 1,6 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 2023 with roughly 305.6 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 were nearly 36 percent. Meanwhile, Baidu was the most used search engine in China, despite a strong percentage decrease of internet users in the country accessing it. In other countries, like Japan and Mexico, people tend to use Yahoo along with Google. In the first quarter of 2022 nearly 56 percent of the respondents in Japan said that they had used Yahoo in the past four weeks. In the same year, over 27 percent of users in Mexico said they used Yahoo. Another search engine, Bing, operated by Microsoft, was the second most popular search engine in the United Kingdom after Google.

In January 2025, the online search engine Bing accounted for 4.04 percent of the global search market across all devices, while market leader Google held a search traffic share of around 89.62 percent. Meanwhile, Yandex's market share was 2.62 percent, while Yahoo! represented around 1.34 percent.

Throughout 2020, Google was the most popular online search engine in the Dominican Republic with a market share of nearly 95.6 percent. It was followed by Microsoft's Bing with 3.13 percent of share during that period. Likewise, Google also topped the ranking in Brazil.

In March 2024, Google accounted for 86.94 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 8.04 percent, among the engine's highest quotas registered in the country to date.

In 2020, Google was the most popular online search engine in Puerto Rico, accounting for approximately 91.7 percent of web traffic. It was followed by Microsoft's Bing, with a 4.8 percent share that year. In addition, Google also concentrated most of the web traffic in the Dominican Republic.

In September 2023, Google was the most popular online search engine in Chile with a market share of over 95 percent. Microsoft's Bing ranked second with 2.85 percent of share throughout that period. Furthermore, Google Chrome was used by approximately eight out of ten Chilean internet users.

Google was by far the most popular online search engine in Colombia in 2020, accounting for almost 98 percent of web traffic. Microsoft's Bing ranked second with slightly over one percent of share during the period. Moreover, Google Chrome concentrated most of the web traffic in Colombia.

In January 2024, Microsoft Sites handled 28.3 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 11 percent. Market leader Google generated 60.4 percent of all core search queries in the United States.

As of December 2024, Google had the highest share of search engine referrals in the United Arab Emirates, at around 96 percent. This was significantly more than Bing, which had the second most referrals at around 2.84 percent, a drop from 3.1 percent in the previous year.

Google is not only popular in its home country but is also the dominant internet search provider in many major online markets, frequently generating almost 80 percent of desktop search traffic. The search engine giant has a market share of over 90 percent in India and accounted for the majority of the global search engine market, 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 8 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 1.7 billion euros.

In April 2023, desktop computer searches represented 49.17 percent of the search engine market in the UK. Mobile searches followed with 45.97 percent, with the remaining 4.86 percent for consoles.

Google is the leading search engine in South Africa. As of January 2023, almost 96 percent of the searches on the web were conducted through this search engine. Its closest contender was Bing, with a share of 3.5 percent. Yahoo! ranked third with a share of only 0.2 percent.

Google referrals made up nearly 97 percent of the web traffic in Tunisia as of January 2024, representing the most popular search engine in the country. Despite accounting for a significantly lower share of page referrals, Bing was the second-main search engine, representing under three percent of the web traffic. Yahoo! followed with a share smaller than one percent.

In March 2024, the online search engine Bing accounted for 3.65 percent of the European search market across all devices, while market leader Google held a search traffic share of around 91.38 percent. Meanwhile, Yandex's market share was 2.98 percent, while Yahoo! represented around 0.89 percent.

Google dominated the Egyptian web traffic. As of November 2022, close to 97.5 percent of the web traffic was referred via this search engine. Bing was its closest competitor, with only 1.5 percent. Yahoo! came in third place, with a share of almost 0.3 percent.

In March 2024, Google accounted for over 95 percent of the mobile search market in the United States. With approximately 59 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 1.84 percent and 1.54 percent each.

In December 2023, Google was the search engine with the majority of web traffic referrals in Nigeria. It accounted for over 99 percent of the web traffic in the country. Following this were Bing and Yahoo!, with 0.4 percent and 0.04 percent of the traffic, respectively.

As of the fourth quarter of 2019, 49 percent of Yahoo's U.S. organic search traffic originated from mobile devices. Google had the highest share of organic mobile search traffic with 61 percent, slightly ahead of DuckDuckGo with 58 percent.

As of March 2024, Google accounted for 96.32 percent of the search engine web traffic in Spain, being the most popular tool of this kind in the country across all devices. Bing was the second-main search engine, with 2.48 percent of the web traffic, while Yahoo! followed with 0.76 percent.

As of February 2025, Google was the search engine with the most referrals to webpages in Ghana. It accounted for over 97 percent of the web traffic in the country. This was followed by Bing and Yahoo!, with 2.4 percent and 0.1 percent of the traffic, respectively.