Mobile Accounts for 10% of Google Queries, Says Analyst

Mobile searches account for an estimated 10% of Google queries, says Citi analyst Mark Mahaney in a research note released earlier this week. The report, which examined the new comScore search market data, mainly focused on how the use of slideshows by Yahoo and Bing perhaps unfairly boosted their search share ratings.

The mobile search mention itself was nearly overlooked, as it was more of side note in the larger report. Although comScore doesn't include mobile search results in its findings, said Mahaney, those queries now account for "almost 10% of total GOOG queries."

Mobile search queries are "growing very rapidly for GOOG - perhaps triple-digit Y/Y growth," remarked Mahaney in the note released Tuesday morning before attributing the 10% figure to them.

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