Preferred Search Engines For Expats

[virago]

Do you have any data to support that assertion?

Ask any local what they use. Simple.

Sent from somewhere....

[Gruntfuttock]

Ah - who needs robust data & analysis, eh?

[mid_gen]

All the locals i work with use Google...ergo Google has 100% market share.

[cokezero]

Ah - who needs robust data & analysis, eh?

http://press.experian.com/Hong-Kong/...ings.aspx?&p=1

for you

[Gruntfuttock]

Thanks. So that second data point puts Yahoo marginally ahead of Google in 2011 (if you combine the .com and .com.hk domains). No data showing that "Yahoo is by far the most dominant here."

[drumbrake]

http://press.experian.com/Hong-Kong/...ings.aspx?&p=1

for you

That data is from 2011. So, appears that yahoo's share of the search market is declining in Hong Kong, while google is taking its market share.

[Gruntfuttock]

Indeed - using the same source for data (Experian Hitwise) for even March 2012 shows a very different position:
http://www.vc2plus.com/search-engine...ong-kong-2012/

And by December 2012 YAhoo is falling off a cliff in terms of market share:
http://www.chandlernguyen.com/2013/0...-mar-2013.html
(underlying data still from Experian)

And here's some more data from a different source which also shows Google as substantially larger:
http://clicky.com/marketshare/hk/search-engines/

[365print]

According to Alexia, which ranks website traffics, Google is the number 1 portal in HK. Yahoo is number 3. I am assuming Yahoo gets plenty of traffic because of their content and not of their horrible search engine. From the data gathered for my website, Google gives me the most traffic.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/HK