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79% -- search market share for Google (2025)
Google accounted for nearly 79% of desktop search interactions across 41 major websites in the EU and UK in Q4 2025.
- Only includes desktop traffic
- Limited to 41 selected domains with search features from the top 250 most visited websites
- Counts multi-prompt AI sessions and browsing sessions identically to single search queries
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79%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
86
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SparkToro
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Tier A
https://t3n.de/news/google-dominiert-weiter-chatgpt-holt-auf-wo-internetsuche-wirklich-stattfindet-1… ↗
Source Article
Google dominiert weiter, ChatGPT holt auf: Wo Internetsuche wirklich stattfindet | t3n
Google dominiert weiter, ChatGPT holt auf: Wo Internetsuche wirklich stattfindet
Die Suche findet überall statt, zeigt eine SparkToro-Analyse weltbekannter Websites von Amazon bis Wikipedia, von Google bis Tiktok. Wir zeigen, welchen Suchanteil große Seiten wirklich haben – auch in der EU –, wo Chat…
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2026-09-26
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SparkToro
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Methodology
Analysis of search activity across 41 major websites by SparkToro.
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 80% | |
| 2004 | 36% | -55.0% |
| 2004-05 | 36.8% | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 59.2% | +60.9% |
| 2006 | 42.3% | -28.5% |
| 2006 | 44.7% | +5.7% |
| 2006-12 | 47.4% | +6.0% |
| 2007 | 56% | +18.1% |
| 2007 | 60% | +7.1% |
| 2007-07 | 49.5% | -17.5% |
| 2007-12 | 58.4% | +18.0% |
| 2008 | 58% | -0.7% |
| 2008 | 63% | +8.6% |
| 2009 | 77% | +22.2% |
| 2009 | 72% | -6.5% |
| 2009 | 74% | +2.8% |
| 2009-06 | 65% | -12.2% |
| 2009-09 | 80.08% | +23.2% |
| 2010 | 31% | -61.3% |
| 2010 | 30% | -3.2% |
| 2010 | 65% | +116.7% |
| 2010-06 | 71.65% | +10.2% |
| 2010-06 | 65% | -9.3% |
| 2010-07 | 65% | 0% |
| 2010-07 | 65.1% | +0.2% |
| 2011-12 | 80% | +22.9% |
| 2012 | 83% | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 78% | -6.0% |
| 2012-01 | 65% | -16.7% |
| 2012-10 | 89.33% | +37.4% |
| 2013 | 65.2% | -27.0% |
| 2013-07 | 67% | +2.8% |
| 2015 | 60% | -10.4% |
| 2020 | 71% | +18.3% |
| 2023 | 92.9% | +30.8% |
| 2023-03 | 90% | -3.1% |
| 2024 | 93.57% | +4.0% |
| 2024-10 | 19% | -79.7% |
| 2024-2025 | 92.54% | +387.1% |
| 2025 (current) | 79% | -14.6% |
| 2026 | 64.4% | -18.5% |
| 2026 | 83% | +28.9% |
| 2026 | 87% | +4.8% |
| 2026 | 92% | +5.7% |
| Q2 2010 | 27.3% | -70.3% |
Segmentation
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Google: 79% search market share. Source: SparkToro (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-search-market-share-eu-2025
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