Search engines by country · Europe

Which search engines do people use in the Netherlands?

Listed in the UN M49 country list as “Netherlands (Kingdom of the)”.

In StatCounter's October 2026 figures for the Netherlands (all platforms), Google has 89.64% of search engine referrals, bing 4.59% and YANDEX 2.38%. Referrals are visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a results page, not searches. ChatGPT has the highest AI chatbot share, 52.2%. This site documents no engine for the Netherlands 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
89.64% StatCounter Global StatsVisits from results pages to sites running StatCounter's code, all platforms
Engines documented for the Netherlands
None in the engine profiles for this country in particular
Top AI chatbot
ChatGPT, 52.2% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter's product name
Population
18,087,6332025, World Bank
Rich results that name the Netherlands
1 on record

Which search engines do people use in the Netherlands?

StatCounter lists 11 search engine rows for the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands, 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. Google89.64%
  2. bing4.59%
  3. YANDEX2.38%
  4. DuckDuckGo1.5%
  5. Yahoo!1.2%
  6. Ecosia0.54%
  7. StartPagina (Google)0.07%
  8. Qwant0.04%
  9. Other0.02%
  10. StartPage0.02%
  11. PrivacyWall0.01%

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; Netherlands is one of them.

Which AI chatbots do people use in the Netherlands?

StatCounter lists 5 AI chatbot rows for the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its product names. Bars run from 0 to 100%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. ChatGPT52.2%
  2. Google Gemini31.13%
  3. Perplexity9.08%
  4. Microsoft Copilot4.74%
  5. Claude2.86%

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

Which engines are documented for the Netherlands?

The engine profiles on this site document no engine for the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands?

The engine profiles record 1 rich result type whose documentation names the Netherlands in saying where the result is, or is not, available. Only rows that name the Netherlands 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

  • Job posting Active

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

    Documentation

How do I test a page for the Netherlands?

Inject the World

Test a page for the Netherlands

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

Test a page

Sources

Market share

  • StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, the Netherlands, October 2026, all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, the Netherlands, 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.Job posting (JobPosting) structured data for Job Search · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026

Names

Netherlands is the English name in CLDR 47.0, the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository. “Netherlands (Kingdom of the)” is its name in the UN M49 country list. ISO 3166-1 code: NL.