“Bing” market share in home is only 2%, accoding to a recent survey in Japan
The survey is conducted by Japan.internet.com and iBridge Research+ (Research Plus).
The research surveyed 300 people between the age of 20 to 60, 49% male, 51% female. The age distribution is 18.7% in their 20’s, 33.2% in 30’s, 26.3% in 40’s, 12.7% in 50’s, and 9% in 60’s.
The survey asked people which search services they use as their main search engine at home the past year, since “Bing” entered the search engine market last year.
The results, Yahoo is 268 people (89%), Google 190 (63%), Infoseek Rakuten 78 (26%), while Bing is only 6 (2%).
Other main search being used at home in Japan are, goo 62 (20.6%), BIGLOBE 41 (13.6%), MSN 39 (13%), nifty 16 (5.3%), livedoor 12 (4%), Baidu 7 (2.3%), others 24 (8%).
When asked what they use as the main search engines at work, the result is, Yahoo 117 people (39%), Google 84 (28%), Infoseek Rakuten 17 (5.6%), while Bing is 4 (1.3%).
japan.internet.com: すでに全体の2％のユーザーが、「Bing」を主な検索エンジンとして使用している
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