

- #WHAT IS GOOGLE CHROME VS INTERNET EXPLORER INSTALL#
- #WHAT IS GOOGLE CHROME VS INTERNET EXPLORER UPGRADE#
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. This is a past article about this, and I believe the situation hasn’t changed:
#WHAT IS GOOGLE CHROME VS INTERNET EXPLORER INSTALL#
If you install Chrome on an existing computer, it will honor whatever your current default is, though it asks for this to be reconfirmed. In Chrome, Google is the default choice, but only on a new computer that hasn’t already got a browser with a default search engine.

That leads to Google? What’s the situation there? Google: Home To The “Alternative” Browsers Those deals Microsoft has been cutting are paying off. That means the 75% usage by Bing visitors is well above normal. How’s the 75% Internet Explorer usage that Chitika found compare to usage overall? Here’s the breakdown for all traffic use:Īs you can see, Internet Explorer has a 52% overall usage. That’s how Internet Explorer 8 has worked:
#WHAT IS GOOGLE CHROME VS INTERNET EXPLORER UPGRADE#
If you upgrade your computer, I believe that Internet Explorer 9 will use whatever settings you currently have.

While you might think that Bing does well because it’s automatically the default choice in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, that’s not the case. Our numbers show an even higher percentage of Bing traffic coming from IE users - almost 77%:įor IE, Computer Maker Set Default Choice We went all the way back to the start of the year to see browser usage among both Bing. Our internal stats here at Search Engine Land confirm what Chitika’s data shows about the strength of Bing usage among IE users. Chitika says almost 75% of all Bing search traffic comes from IE users: The figures come from a new report by Chitika, which analyzed a week’s worth of traffic across its ad network sites from July 20 to 26, 2011, for North America. Instead, Google deals with Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Google’s own Chrome browser cause those to combine and outdistance IE usage. While almost 75% of Bing visitors in North America use Internet Explorer, only about 40% of Google’s search visitors use the web’s most popular browser.
