Bellamy Posted March 4, 2006 at 05:46 AM Posted March 4, 2006 at 05:46 AM Google grabs 48% market share in online searches New York (NY) - Google remains the most popular search engine with Internet users in the U.S. The company counted more than twice the search requests than its nearest competitor Yahoo, Nielsen Netratings said today. The 60 search engines monitored by the market research firm assisted in a total of 5.7 billion searches started by U.S. users in January of this year. The number represents an all-time high and a 39 percent increase from about 4.1 billion in January 2005. "Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people's everyday lives," said Ken Cassar, chief analyst at Nielsen Netratings. The market research firm estimates that approximately 48.2% of all search requests were run through Google. Yahoo follows as a distant second with a share of 22.2%; Microsoft rounds out the top-3 with 11.0%. Neither search engine posted significant gains or losses in their market shares over the past 12 months. Google climbed by 1.1%, Yahoo increased 0.9% and MSN Search saw a slight decline of 1.8%, according to Nielsen Netratings. While the market shares did not shift much, each search engine processed significantly more search requests than in January of 2005. Google's number of searches increased by 42% from 1.9 billion to 2.7 billion, Yahoo gained 46% from 866 million to 1.3 billion and MSN saw a 20% growth from 523 million to 626 million.Source: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/03/03/google_d..._search_market/ Quote Please support the forum by ordering everything through our special Amazon.com link Click here. Thank you!
Célinefull Posted March 4, 2006 at 08:18 AM Posted March 4, 2006 at 08:18 AM I thought it would have been more than that! Quote http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7108/ziegfieldgirlbanner.jpg
Banedone Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:15 AM Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:15 AM Achtung achtung then what's left for Yahoo? Quote
Koolan Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:27 AM Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:27 AM that's it? Sometimes, I find that yahoo gives more relevant results Quote Please support the forum by ordering through our Amazon.com referral link below. Click here to go to the Amazon homepage.
Célinefull Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:38 AM Posted March 4, 2006 at 10:38 AM that's it? Sometimes, I find that yahoo gives more relevant results <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah, I agree. Quote http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7108/ziegfieldgirlbanner.jpg
Banedone Posted March 4, 2006 at 06:56 PM Posted March 4, 2006 at 06:56 PM Well I would rather count on Google when it comes about web surching Quote
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