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  "id": "statcounter-google-89-94-percent-search-share-sept-2026",
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  "claim": "Google had 89.94% of worldwide search engine market share in September 2026 (StatCounter)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"What is Google's search market share?\" / \"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 Worldwide (September 2026)",
    "year": "2026"
  },
  "quote": "Search Engine Market Share Worldwide - September 2026 Google 89.94 % bing 5.29 % Yahoo! 1.36 % YANDEX 1.3 % DuckDuckGo 0.74 % Baidu 0.44 %",
  "method": "StatCounter tracking code on a large network of websites; measures search referrals to those sites, not searches performed.",
  "drift": [
    "Metric: share of referral traffic seen by StatCounter's network, not query volume",
    "Scope: excludes AI chatbots, which StatCounter tracks separately"
  ],
  "interest": "StatCounter sells web analytics.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "StatCounter data for September 2026 put Google at 89.94% of worldwide search engine referrals, ahead of Bing at 5.29%.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "StatCounter — Search Engine Market Share Worldwide",
      "url": "https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "September 2026 (monthly data)",
  "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/"
}