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70%

70% -- search engine market share for Google Search (2026)

Name: Search Engine Market Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-17

2026 · freshtraffic.ca

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Value

70%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

Google Search

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

freshtraffic.ca Primary Tier C

http://www.freshtraffic.ca/unsatisfied-with-facebook-most-users-are/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Unsatisfied with Facebook

Original Research

freshtraffic.ca · Original study ↗

Methodology

Author-reported figure that Google serves 70% of web searches (vs Bing's 30%); no explicit attribution given in the article. Article undated; references to Google+ suggest underlying data may be circa 2011-2012; 2026 vintage applied per collection-date default.

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2025-03	79%
2026 (current)	70%	-11.4%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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Google Search: 70% search engine market share. Source: freshtraffic.ca (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-search-market-share-70

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