Google continues to be experiencing an increase in their market share. In June, Google ended the month with 70.80%, the first time surpassing 70% since September 2014. Yahoo! gained 0.31% market share from last month, while Bing's search engine market share decreased by 0.03%. However ,as compared to last year, both Yahoo! and Bing have gained significant increase in their market share. Statistics provided by Net Market Share.
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It’s good to see that there is still competition for Google, as it may bring something different. Of course Google is still the biggest fish and probably will be long time, but some alternative could be interesting.