It is no secret that google has been dominating the search engines market share for the last couple of decades. Google was founded in 1997, although the very first search engine was called “Archie”, but let’s keep history for another post. We are here to show some numbers on how the search engines market share is actually shared between google, bing, yahoo, yandex, baidu and others.

According to the below graph from StatCounter, Google still holds 90% of market share worldwide, with slight insignificant loss for bing in the past couple of months.

Search Engines Market Share By Country

• Google’s market share is around 90% in US, Canda, Australia, South America and Europe.
• China is considered to be the “No-Google-land” where local search engines Baidu and Alibaba’s Shenma dominates the Chinese search engines market.

• In Russia , Google has almost a 50-50 market share with Yandex.

• As far as our region (Middle East) is concerned, Google dominates the search engines market share with even a higher percentage to reach around 97% in Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Kuwait , Egypt and Lebanon .

Why Google is by far the leading search engine?

Bing is trying, with the beautiful images and all. In fact, Google couldn’t find things that are not found by bing or yahoo. Search results are in most cases similar on all search engines. Yet, google has always been holding the largest market share, and this doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon.

So, what makes Google so special? Here are some reasons that makes Google the primary holder of search engines market share:

1- Simplicity: Google kept it simple, a factor which positively contributes to user experience.

2- Core business: search is Google’s core business right from the beginnings in the 1990s.

3- CSI factor: continual service improvement in google products and services is a key factor for staying on top of the list.

4- Chrome: Google chrome is the most popular internet browser. It gained that title because it belongs to Google’s family. But on the other hand, with address bar search feature and google being the default search engine, chrome definitely plays a vital role in 4 billion search queries happening every day.

5- Products integration: Integrating all google products together such as gmail, YouTube, maps, analytics, ads, adsense and other is a major player in moving google way ahead of the competition.

Google dominates the search engines market with 4 billion query a day. Which is an enough reason to use Ciatec’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) service to rank higher on search engines results page, contact us today for a free site assessment.

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Analyzing performance of top sites in a certain country will provide a general overview of the digital population interests and demands and help digital strategists set strategies to better fit. If you are looking to build a digital marketing strategy in Saudi Arabia, the below list will give you a brief idea of the Top websites in Saudi Arabia (most visited website in Saudi Arabia) in all categories.

Top Websites in Saudi Arabia

	Site	Site Nationality	Daily time on Site
1	Google.com		6:28
2	Youtube.com		8:12
3	Sabq.org		3:40
4	Facebook.com		11:03
5	Yahoo.com		3:57
6	Live.com		4:03
7	Argaam.com		12:38
8	Twitter.com		6:24
9	Hawaaworld.com		1:52
10	Wikipedia.org		4:15
11	Souq.com		6:23
12	Moe.gov.sa		13:26
13	Blogspot.com		2:39
14	Moi.gov.sa		8:40
15	Ajel.sa		3:54
16	Instagram.com		5:27
17	almubasher.com.sa		9:02
18	Starzplay.com		1:24
19	3sk.tv		3:39
20	Mawdoo3.com		3:17

With CIATEC help, your site will have a better chance to make it to the top 20 websites list, contact us here to know how.

Disclaimer:

• Top Websites in Saudi Arabia: The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month Alexa traffic rank. The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page-views is ranked #1.
• Duplicate sites such as google.com and google.com.sa are considered as one site.
• Ads service websites such as deloton.com are ignored.

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Top 20 Websites in Lebanon

	Site	Site Nationality	Daily time on Site
1	Google.com		7:36
2	Youtube.com		8:11
3	Facebook.com		11:03
4	Live.com		4:03
5	Bintjbeil.org		4:23
6	Yasour.org		4:19
7	Greenarea.me		2:50
8	Wikipedia.org		4:15
9	Yahoo.com		3:57
10	Saidaonline.com		6:39
11	Instagram.com		5:27
12	Almodon.com		3:29
13	Office.com		3:43
14	Lebanon-Lotto.com		3:07
15	Aliexpress.com		14:26
16	Lebanonfiles.com		16:49
17	Msn.com		3:44
18	Elnashra.com		8:04
19	Twitter.com		6:24
20	Blogspot.com		2:39

With CIATEC help, your site will have a better chance to make it to the top 20 websites list, contact us here to know how.

Disclaimer:

• Top 20 Websites in Lebanon: The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month Alexa traffic rank. The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page-views is ranked #1.
• Rank improvement  or decline  are in comparison to previous top websites statistics published on ciatec.com under the same category.
• Duplicate sites such as google.com and google.com.lb are considered as one site.
• Ads service websites such as deloton.com are ignored.

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Top Websites in Lebanon

	Site	Site Nationality	Daily time on Site
1	Google.com		7:24
2	Youtube.com		8:13
3	Facebook.com		10:57
4	Live.com		4:02
5	Bintjbeil.org		3:43
6	Yasour.org		4:22
7	Greenarea.me		2:51
8	Wikipedia.org		4:16
9	Yahoo.com		3:57
10	Saidaonline.com		6:41
11	Instagram.com		5:26
12	Lebanon-lotto.com		3:25
13	Office.com		3:42
14	Aliexpress.com		13:45
15	Msn.com		3:46
16	Lebanonfiles.com		17:27
17	Blogspot.com		7:28
18	Twitter.com		6:25
19	Elnashra.com		7:28
20	Almodon.com		3:25

With our help, your site can make it to the top 20 list, contact us here.

Disclaimer:

• Top Websites in Lebanon: The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month Alexa traffic rank. The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page-views is ranked #1.
• Duplicate sites such as google.com and google.com.lb are considered as one site.
• Ads service websites such as deloton.com are ignored.

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At CIATEC, we study those statistics on regular basis and we provide you with the latest numbers for active Arab internet users statistics per country in Middle East region and Arab world in general for the year of 2017.

ِArab Internet Users Statistics (2017)

		Country/Region	Population	Internet Users	Penetration Rate
		Middle East	396,839,124	179,210,416	45.16%
1		Bahrain	1,418,895	1,390,517	98.00%
2		UAE	9,541,615	8,515,420	89.25%
3		Qatar	2,694,849	2,204,580	81.81%
4		Kuwait	4,197,128	3,214,347	76.58%
5		Lebanon	6,093,509	4,596,494	75.43%
6		Saudi Arabia	33,554,343	24,147,715	71.97%
7		Oman	4,829,946	3,310,260	68.54%
8		Jordan	9,903,802	6,300,000	63.61%
9		Palestine	5,052,776	3,015,088	59.67%
10		Morocco	35,421,776	20,555,783	58.03%
11		Tunisia	11,532,137	5,801,972	50.31%
12		Algeria	41,318,412	17,440,299	42.21%
13		Egypt	97,812,496	39,218,736	40.10%
14		Iraq	39,339,753	14,103,501	35.85%
15		Syria	18,284,407	6,025,631	32.96%
16		Sudan	40,553,380	11,082,072	27.33%
17		Yemen	28,915,284	6,911,784	23.90%
18		Libya	6,374,616	1,376,217	21.59%

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