In the US, Google has about 85% of search engine market share and Bing about 10%
Verified Confidence: high
Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
- Commonly cited as
- "Google has 90% of search"
- True origin
- Statcounter Global Stats — Search Engine Market Share United States (Sept. 2026)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2026
- Data as of
- September 2026
- Last checked
- What the source says
Search Engine Market Share in United States Of America - September 2026 Google 85.19 % bing 9.89 % Yahoo! 2.64 % DuckDuckGo 1.75 %
- Method & sample
- Statcounter counts page views on the 1.5M+ sites that use its tracking code; it is a share of page views, not of users or queries.
- Drift between quote and source
- The often-quoted ~90% is the global share; US share is lower
- Share of referrals from search pages, not of queries
- Interest
- n/a (web analytics firm publishing free aggregate data).
Safe rephrasing
Statcounter put Google at 85.2% and Bing at 9.9% of US search engine referrals in September 2026.
Sources we opened
- Statcounter — US search engine share (primary)
Machine-readable: /api/claims/statcounter-us-google-85-bing-9-9-percent-sept-2026.json · Last checked 2026-10-16