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Actually Google is way more dominant outside of the US than in it, particularly in Europe (>90 % market share), as this 2015 Atlantic article about anti trust m
by tedeh 9y ago
Actually Google is way more dominant outside of the US than in it, particularly in Europe (>90 % market share), as this 2015 Atlantic article about anti trust measures tells us about:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europeans-use-google-way-way-more-than-americans-do/390612/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europ...
In my native Sweden, using anything other than Google is pretty much unheard of.
I believe the average American internet user is ahead of the curve in this respect, using Bing and other search engines which are probably as good for most queries as Google is.
- gommm 9y agoThe thing is that Google is quite a bit better than Bing when it comes to localized search results outside of the US. I try to stay away from Google and use DDG but if I search for anything local outside, Google's results are much better than the competition
- Eridrus 9y agoYou're right, I got the direction confused. Though Russia has low Google usage, probably due to Yandex. China also has very little usage, but I assume that it's more than just Baidu.
- kalleboo 9y agoAnd Japan has Yahoo! Japan (28% market share and stable)