Interesting factoid: in 2008 than 87% of searches outside North America were NOT performed in a Google Search Engine… perhaps a week or so ago I read this Blog post on market share by country that you may find interesting:
http://www.chandlernguyen.com/2011/03/search-engine-market-share-by-country-mar-2011.html
It was updated in July, 2011 to this spreadsheet – not sure how it will translate formatting wise in this dialogue box but here goes:
Country Google Sites Yahoo! Sites Microsoft Sites Ask Baidu Naver Daum AOL Yandex
Argentina [1] 89.40% – - – - – - – -
Australia [2] 91.81% 2.38% 4.20% 0.30% – - – - -
Brazil [3] 89.00% – - – - – - – -
Canada [4] 80.96% 4.20% 8.60% 3.70% – - – - -
China [5] 19.60% – - – 75.50% – - – -
Colombia [6] 92.20% – - – - – - – -
Hong Kong [7] 58.02% 23.51% – - 6.08% – - – -
India [8] 88.40% – - – - – - – -
Japan [9] 38.00% 51.00% – - – - – - -
Latin America [10] 90.50% – - – - – - – -
Russia [11] – - – - – - – - 64.10%
Singapore [12] 86.51% 10.17% 1.74% – - – - – -
South Korea [13] 7.30% 4.10% – - – 61.90% 19.70% – -
UK [14] 91.65% 2.51% 2.88% 1.36% – - – - -
US [15] 65.50% 15.90% 14.10% 2.90% – - – 1.50% -





