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Which search engines do people use in India?

In StatCounter's October 2026 figures for India (all platforms), Google has 98.06% of search engine referrals, bing 1.11% and Yahoo! 0.35%. Referrals are visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a results page, not searches. ChatGPT has the highest AI chatbot share, 49.9%. This site documents no engine for India in particular. StatCounter Global Stats

Share figures for October 2026 · data checked November 10, 2026

#1 search engine
GoogleStatCounter's label, October 2026
Its share of search engine referrals
98.06% StatCounter Global StatsVisits from results pages to sites running StatCounter's code, all platforms
Engines documented for India
None in the engine profiles for this country in particular
Top AI chatbot
ChatGPT, 49.9% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter's product name
Population
1,463,865,5252025, World Bank
Rich results that name India
2 on record

Which search engines do people use in India?

StatCounter lists 8 search engine rows for India for October 2026, all platforms. Each figure is that row's share of search engine referrals: the visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a search engine's results page. It does not count searches. StatCounter Global Stats

Search engine referrals in India, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its labels; a linked label opens the engine page it is matched to. Bars run from 0 to 100%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. Google98.06%
  2. bing1.11%
  3. Yahoo!0.35%
  4. DuckDuckGo0.33%
  5. YANDEX0.1%
  6. Ecosia0.03%
  7. PrivacyWall0.02%
  8. Other0%

Matching: StatCounter's one “Yahoo!” row is counted as Yahoo Search here (as Yahoo! JAPAN Search in Japan; its worldwide row covers both). YANDEX is Yandex Search; where StatCounter also lists YANDEX RU, the two rows are added together.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Rankings across countries on this site use only places of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three search engines; India is one of them.

Which AI chatbots do people use in India?

StatCounter lists 6 AI chatbot rows for India for October 2026, under its own product names. StatCounter does not describe how it measures AI chatbot share on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. Its product names are broader or narrower than the engine profiles on this site, so each linked name opens the engine profile it is matched to. StatCounter Global Stats

AI chatbot share in India, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its product names. Bars run from 0 to 50%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. ChatGPT49.9%
  2. Google Gemini35.49%
  3. Perplexity8.95%
  4. Claude3.38%
  5. Microsoft Copilot2.26%
  6. Deepseek0.02%

Source: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Which engines are documented for India?

The engine profiles on this site document no engine for India in particular. 26 engines are recorded with no country limit: their pages do not limit them to listed countries. They are on the engines page.

Which rich results name India?

The engine profiles record 2 rich result types whose documentation names India in saying where the result is, or is not, available. Only rows that name India itself are listed: a rich result documented for a whole region, without a list of its countries, does not appear here. Valid markup can make a page eligible; it does not guarantee the result.

Google Search

  • Event Active

    Available only in the places its documentation lists, including India.[1]

    Documentation

  • Job posting Active

    Available only in the places its documentation lists, including India.[2]

    Documentation

How do I test a page for India?

Inject the World

Test a page for India

Check the structured data on a page against what the engines profiled on this site document, with India set as the market.

Test a page

Sources

Market share

  • StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, India, October 2026, all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, India, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Population

World Bank, indicator SP.POP.TOTL, CC BY 4.0, 2025. It also decides which places are ranked (1 million people or more).

Rich result availability

Numbered as cited above.

  1. 1.Event (Event) structured data · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026
  2. 2.Job posting (JobPosting) structured data for Job Search · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026

Names

India is the English name in CLDR 47.0, the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository. The country list used here is UN M49, plus Taiwan from ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-1 code: IN.