The combo Bing and Yahoo remained stable and continued to gain searches conducted in America in August 2011. According to the latest data from Hitwise, the decision engine captured 13.10% shares in August, compared to 12.98% shares in July, or an increase of 0.12% shares.
Yahoo Search captured a total of 15.89% shares in August, compared to 15.07% shares in July, or an increase of 0.82% shares.
The Search Alliance combo totaled 28.99% shares in August, compared to 28.05% shares in July, or an increase of 0.94% shares.
The world’s largest search engine continued to lose its dominance as it dropped to 65.09% shares in August, compared to 66.05% shares in July, or a drop of 0.96% shares.
Hitwise data was based on sample of about 10 million Internet users in America. For the month of August, data was captured for four weeks and ended on August 27, 2011. Hitwise only collected web searches and excluded mobile searches from the samples.
(Table: Hitwise)
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