Shareaholic: Google, Bing and other search engines are driving a smaller percentage of site traffic

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing are driving a smaller proportion of total site traffic on the internet, according to a new report. Social discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released new data which showed a drop in the number of people visting sites because of recommendations from their preferred search engine. In the six-month period leading up to May, the percentage of overall traffic from Google dropped from 37.49 percent to 31.04 percent. Yahoo and Bing, which referred 1.31 percent and 1.15 percent of total traffic in December, dropped to 0.90 percent and 0.78 percent respectively in...



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