Search engines by country · Africa

Which search engines do people use in South Africa?

In StatCounter's October 2026 figures for South Africa (all platforms), Google has 92.95% of search engine referrals, bing 6.21% and Petal Search 0.29%. Referrals are visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a results page, not searches. ChatGPT has the highest AI chatbot share, 66.21%. This site documents 1 engine for South Africa. 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
92.95% StatCounter Global StatsVisits from results pages to sites running StatCounter's code, all platforms
Engines documented for South Africa
1: Meta AI
Top AI chatbot
ChatGPT, 66.21% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter's product name
Population
64,747,3192025, World Bank
Rich results that name South Africa
1 on record

Which search engines do people use in South Africa?

StatCounter lists 8 search engine rows for South Africa 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 South Africa, 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. Google92.95%
  2. bing6.21%
  3. Petal Search0.29%
  4. Yahoo!0.24%
  5. DuckDuckGo0.18%
  6. YANDEX0.08%
  7. Ecosia0.02%
  8. Other0.01%

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; South Africa is one of them.

Which AI chatbots do people use in South Africa?

StatCounter lists 6 AI chatbot rows for South Africa 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 South Africa, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its product names. Bars run from 0 to 100%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. ChatGPT66.21%
  2. Google Gemini19.29%
  3. Microsoft Copilot6.94%
  4. Perplexity5.27%
  5. Claude2.24%
  6. Deepseek0.04%

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

Which engines are documented for South Africa?

The engine profiles on this site document 1 engine for South Africa: its recorded markets include South Africa. Each profile lists its sources.

  • Meta AIAI answer engine

    Rich result types: none on record

    StatCounter AI chatbot figure here: none reported

26 more 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 South Africa?

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

  • Structured data carousels (beta) Limited

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

    Documentation

How do I test a page for South Africa?

Inject the World

Test a page for South Africa

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

Test a page

Sources

Market share

  • StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, South Africa, October 2026, all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, South Africa, 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.Structured data carousels (beta) · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026

Names

South Africa 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: ZA.