More Linux users like using Google as search engine

August 23, 2009

selecting a search engine that has close relation with the choice of operating system users. From a research done by the online ad network Chitika, the majority of users prefer open source search engine Google and elude new Microsoft’s search property Bing.

Recently, Chitika doing research for about a half months, against the internet search behavior, and compare them with the computer operating system they use. The result, of the 163,211,927 of the internet, the percentage of users open Linux operating system to search the internet via Google, the percentage of computer users than Windows and Apple Macintosh.

Around 94.61 percent of respondents search the entire Linux user, use the Google search engine. Meanwhile, only 78.54 percent of the owners of Windows-based computer, use the Google search engine. Loyalty of the Linux users to Google, it’s only Nearest by the user engine Google from the Mac computer, which reaches up to 93 percent.

Not a matter of surprise if the Linux user who will be loyal to avoid themselves from the Microsoft ads. However, that should be, the Linux users also like the new Microsoft search engine is referred to as the ‘decision engine’, ie, Bing.

The percentage of Linux users who use search engines Bing just about 0.77 percent, and even smaller percentage of the Linux users who use search engine Ask.com (1.07 percent). While the selection of the Windows user even more to spread the three major search engines, namely Google (78.54 percent), Yahoo (10.37 percent), and Bing (8.01 percent).

The relationship between Yahoo and Microsoft itself, the more harmonious cooperation after both perform in the field of Internet search and online advertising. Even recently, Yahoo also promote the products the internet, own the site.

As quoted from TechCrunch, when visitors use the Yahoo browser other than Internet Explorer, then on the right side of the top sites will listed sponsor message reads “Get The News, IE8 safer.”


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