The ComScore for the 2009 global search stats are out, and although Google was the leader among the search sights, Bing showed the fastest growth.
Google came in first place with 87.8 billion total worldwide searches, which was a 58 percent increase form last year. Yahoo came in second place for searches with 9.4 billion, and the Chinese search engine Baidu came in third with 8.5 billion.
It was Microsoft sites however, that saw the best growth with searches increasing 70 percent from last year. This boom in searches can be attributed to the launch of Bing, which has seen significant traction since its debut.
“The global search market continues to grow at an extraordinary rate, with both highly developed and emerging markets contributing to the strong growth worldwide.”
Overall the United States was the top search market for 2009, with 22.7 billion searches. Worldwide searches increased in 2009 to 131 billion searches, which represented a 46 percent increase.
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