More Twitter Searches than on Bing or Yahoo

As a search engine, Twitter already is bigger than Yahoo or Bing, by some measures. Twitter handles 19 billion searches a month, the company says.

That means Twitter handles five times the queries that Bing handles and about 20 percent of those Google conducts. Twitter cofounder Ev Williams says Twitter does about 600 million queries per day.

Working off comScore figures from December 2009 for worldwide search queries, we have:

Google: 88 billion per month
Twitter: 19 billion per month
Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month
Bing: 4.1 billion per month

Twitter Does 19 Billion Searches Per Month, Beating Yahoo & Bing (Sort Of):