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Worldwide, Google is still the most widely used search engine. Its number of unique searchers dipped ever so slightly. Yandex bumped Microsoft out of the 4th spot for number of searches (but Microsoft still ahead for unique searchers):

From Search Engine Land:

For December 2012, number of searches:
Google: 114.7 billion searches, 65.2% share
Baidu: 14.5 billion searches, 8.2% share
Yahoo: 8.6 billion searches, 4.9% share
Yandex: 4.8 billion searches, 2.8% share
Microsoft: 4.5 billion searches, 2.5% share
Others: 28.7 billion searches, 16.3% share

December 2012, unique searchers:

Google: 1.17 billion unique searchers, 76.6% share
Baidu: 293 million unique searchers, 19.2% share
Yahoo: 292 million unique searchers, 19.2% share
Microsoft: 269 million unique searchers, 17.6% share
Yandex: 74 million unique searchers, 4.9% share

This is interesting because when the BIG DIP happened last August and September, everyone was writing blog posts about how Google (and SEO) were dead... This shows that it was a short-lived dip and the volume came back...

If not search, then what? What was going on in August? Increased usage of mobile apps?

Further proof that you can't stop the Google machine.

Google will one day take over the world. Then again, haven't they?

And yeah, I knew that Google wasn't going to be dying out anytime soon, even last August and September.

for most of our PPC and SEO clients...desktop search is where it is at.

Those numbers are incredible.