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  "id": "statcounter-us-google-85-bing-9-9-percent-sept-2026",
  "slug": "statcounter-us-google-85-bing-9-9-percent-sept-2026",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/statcounter-us-google-85-bing-9-9-percent-sept-2026/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/statcounter-us-google-85-bing-9-9-percent-sept-2026.json",
  "claim": "In the US, Google has about 85% of search engine market share and Bing about 10%",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Google has 90% of search\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Statcounter Global Stats",
    "title": "Search Engine Market Share United States (Sept. 2026)",
    "year": "2026"
  },
  "quote": "Search Engine Market Share in United States Of America - September 2026 Google 85.19 % bing 9.89 % Yahoo! 2.64 % DuckDuckGo 1.75 %",
  "method": "Statcounter counts page views on the 1.5M+ sites that use its tracking code; it is a share of page views, not of users or queries.",
  "drift": [
    "The often-quoted ~90% is the global share; US share is lower",
    "Share of referrals from search pages, not of queries"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a (web analytics firm publishing free aggregate data).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Statcounter put Google at 85.2% and Bing at 9.9% of US search engine referrals in September 2026.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Statcounter — US search engine share",
      "url": "https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/united-states-of-america",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "September 2026",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}