BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 19. Google maintained
its dominant position in Azerbaijan's search engine market,
accounting for 97.35% of searches in September 2026, according to
StatCounter Global Stats.
According to Trend’s calculations based on data from StatCounter
Global Stats, Google’s search engine market share in Azerbaijan
across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices stood at 97.35% in
September, unchanged from August.
Yandex, which ranked second, saw its market share decrease by
0.07 percentage points to 1.82%.
Bing, which ranked third, increased its share by 0.1 percentage
points to 0.67%. DuckDuckGo and Yahoo! tied for fourth place, with
shares of 0.07%. DuckDuckGo’s share decreased by 0.04 percentage
points, while Yahoo!’s remained unchanged.
According to StatCounter Global Stats, Google also maintained
its lead in the global search engine market in September 2026. Bing
ranked second, followed by Yahoo! in third place, while Yandex and
DuckDuckGo completed the top five.
On October 7, 2026, Google unveiled Android on-device AI Seal
(AISeal), an architecture designed to enhance the security of
personalized AI features running directly on Android devices.
AISeal uses the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and
protected Kernel-based Virtual Machine (pKVM) virtualization.
According to Google, the architecture isolates sensitive AI-related
data and processes from the device’s main operating system.
