Think online consumers are beginning to settle down, get comfortable with their preferred content resources, and search less? Think again. Internet users over the age of 15 conducted over 29 million
searches per minute last year, according to comScore. Overall, the global search market grew 46% in 2009. Worldwide, Google accounted for 66% of all searches conducted in 2009 by Internet users over
15. Microsoft's search properties, i.e., Bing, was responsible for just about 3% of the total market, while the software giant saw the greatest gain -- 70% -- among the top 5 search properties.
In total, comScore estimates that Internet users now conduct close to 131 billion searches per year. Meanwhile, Russian search engine Yandex was the fastest growing property among the top 10
search engine, registering a 90% gain last year. Apart from Alibaba.com, every one of the top 10 search engines in comScore's index registered a growth in the total number of searches conducted on
their sites.
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