Broswer Wars and Search Engines

Rich Byrd

Broswer Wars and Search Engines

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Two new browser releases are off to a fast start. Firefox 4 (with 50 million downloads so far) and Internet Explorer 9 (market share already over 3%).
As we’ve discussed one of the big questions is how that will affect search engine usage.
Here’s a very interesting report on exactly that:

Battle of the Browsers: Impacting Search Share

No surprise, Chrome users are highly likely to use Google. And no surprise, of the various browsers, IE users are lest likely to use Google.
But a majority of even IE users search on Google.
IE users even search on Yahoo more than they do on Bing.
Pitiful.

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