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Google is the top search property in India with more than 1 billion searches conducted in June which is equivalent to 81% of the Indian market. Yahoo was a distant second with 9.4% of the market and Ask at third place with 1.9% market share. Microsoft bagged the fourth position with 1.75 market share. India’s own Internet portal Rediff.com ranked at fifth with 1.5%.

comScore’s executive vice president commenting on the report:

The Indian search market is dominated by global Internet brands, with Google attracting the wide majority of searches. As the top local player in the search market, Indian web portal Rediff.com attracts slightly less than 2 percent of all searches, indicating that there is substantial room for growth among the local Internet brands.

In spite of being the most rapidly emerging Internet markets in the world India’s current Internet usage stats show that the country exhibits less frequent search behavior as compared to the rest of the world. Out of the 37 countries that comScore has reported individually, India ranked 36th with every person conducting 53 searches during the entire month. This is quiet less when compared to the worldwide average of 93 searches per user in a month. These figures clearly show that India Internet market has a long way to go and growth is still very much on the cards.