A
new study from Fivesight Research,
“US Consumer Search Preferences Smartphone & Desktop: Q1 2017,” finds that
Siri is the mobile “search engine” of choice after Google. The study was based
on a survey of 800 US adults split roughly evenly between iOS and Android
users.
Google
was by far the dominant mobile search engine, with an 84% aggregate share among
respondents. Among Android users, Google’s search share was 90%. Among iPhone
owners Google had a 78% share. After Google, however, Siri was named by more
respondents as their “primary search engine” than Bing or Yahoo. (However, this
doesn’t reflect query volume, just identification as the primary engine of
choice.)
Siri
was the primary search engine of 13% of iPhone owners. This finding is
significant because it suggests the long-term, potentially disruptive impact of
voice and virtual assistants on traditional “query in a box” results. It’s
important to point out, however, that these responses reflect self-reported
data and many not line up one-to-one with behavior.
Siri was also the most widely adopted virtual
assistant among the available choices, used by a higher number of iOS users
than “Google Now” was by Android users. Google Assistant wasn’t one of the available
choices on the survey.
A
very large percentage of respondents (72%) said they were using virtual
assistants to “supplement” more traditional mobile search.
Only 16% of iPhone owners did not use a virtual
assistant, while just under 40% of Android users did not. Among iPhone owners
who used assistants other than Siri, 10% used Google Now, and 4% cited Cortana.
Among Android users, 24% were using virtual assistants other than Google’s own,
with 10% using Cortana and the remainder distributed across several others,
including Viv.
The survey also found that Chrome was the
dominant mobile browser, with a 48% share, followed by Safari, with 37%.
Roughly 14% of iPhone owners used Chrome as their primary browser. However,
Android owners reported a higher level of non-Google browser use, with 11%
choosing a Microsoft browser and another 10% using “other.”
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References
Sterling, G. (2017, April
6). Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report].
Retrieved from Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.com/survey-siri-googles-nearest-mobile-search-competitor-272640
