It is interesting to see how Google grows. Seems like day by day and step by step, Google is conquering the knowledge of mankind. I would prefer competition, I always like competition because it means better service and competative pricing (not in the search engine sense).
From Hitwise, the table below shows the market share of the main search engine. But if you see an article sourcing from ComScore, Google only gets 55.2% of the pie on July 07. That is a huge difference of 9.15%, which is due to different calculation method as ComScore puts eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, Craigslist and other website.
Also, you would see that Microsoft gets 12.3%, which is kind of weird, because Hitwise only have 1.61% for other search engine provider for July 2007 and Microsoft only score 8.79%. Considering, that ComScore method shares the pie with more people at the same time.
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Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers |
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| Domain |
Aug-07 |
Jul-07 |
Aug-06 |
| www.google.com |
63.98% |
64.35% |
59.99% |
| search.yahoo.com |
22.87%
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22.13% |
22.73% |
| search.msn.com |
7.98%* |
8.79%* |
11.86% |
| www.ask.com |
3.49% |
3.21% |
3.37% |
| Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 9/01/07; 8/26/07; 7/1/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
* – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search. |
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| Source: Hitwise | |||
