Technology & Business1996–2025

Search Engine Market Share

The web search race starts as a portal war and ends as one of the most durable monopolies on the internet. Google does not just win the board; it turns the rest of the field into a fight for the scraps.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats and industry archives Annual global shares, with pre-2009 values reconstructed from historic industry estimates. Treat early portal-era values as approximate. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-03

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