eBay

 

Number five eBay.com handled 2% of the world’s searches and grew 58% to 2.1 billion searches. It is an American online auction and shopping website with operations localized in over thirty countries around the world.

 

    Microsoft

 

Microsoft's Microsoft’s new Bing search engine ranked 4th with 4.1 billion searches, commanding only about 3% of the total market, but Microsoft also saw the greatest gain (70%) among the top 5 search engines.

 

   Baidu

 

The Nasdaq-listed Chinese search engine, Baidu ranked 3rd with 8.5 billion searches, accounting for 6.5% of worldwide searches and growing 7% compared to the year 2008. Baidu is often referred to as Chinese version of Google due to the popularity of the Chinese-language search engine.

 

    Yahoo

 

Yahoo is still holding 2nd place with 9.4 billion searches, accounting for 7% of the global search share and registering a 13% growth. 

 

   Google

 

According to ComScore, Google is clearly a dominant front runner with 87.8 billion searches, accounting for 67% of the 131 billion searches that happened overall and registering a 58% year-on-year growth in 2009.