Google vs. Baidu: Global Search Engine Market Share, Q4 2012 [CHART]

Google retained its dominant global search engine market share lead in Q4 2012 with 86.5% share of spending, 93% share of impressions, and 67.7% share of clicks, as advertisers increased their spending on the search engine by 13% year-over-year, details Covario in a new report. The study, which covers activity for its clients, consisting primarily of global high-tech and consumer electronics firms, reveals that the Chinese search engine, Baidu, accounted for “an incredible” 23% of all global clicks, despite holding 5% share of spend and impressions. Baidu enjoyed a 52% year-over-year increase in advertiser spending, while the Yahoo Bing Network also saw a healthy 23% increase. The Yahoo Bing Network captured 7.6% global market share in spending and 7.4% share of clicks for the quarter.

Global keyword pricing trended in different directions for the major platforms on a quarter-over-quarter basis, but were up by some margin universally on a year-over-year basis. Google’s average cost-per-click (CPC) increased by 12% year-over-year to $1.33, while Yahoo-Bing’s inched up 1% to $1.08. Yandex saw a more rapid rise of 29%, to $0.45, while Baidu’s average CPC grew by 10% to $0.22. Read the rest at MarketingCharts.

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