Search Engine Rankings, Google Tops at 58%
This just came across my Ameritrade streamer from DOW JONES NEWSWIRES, interesting results:
Google Inc. (GOOG) topped November U.S. Internet searches with 4.25 billion searches, a 58% market share, according to Nielson Co.’s Nielson Online.
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) ranked second with 1.32 billion searches, an 18% market share.
Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT) MSN/Windows Live Search was third with 880.6 million searches, or a 12% share, and Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) AOL rounded out the top four with 332.4 million searches, or a 4.5% share.
Google dominating the top spot, anyone surprised? Interesting to see that they only did just over three times more searches then Yahoo though. Thought there was a wider spread than that. Google at one point held 70%+ marketshare.
That number seems low to me too, is market share dropping? Price sure did today. Market share for GOOG last month was below 56%, now it’s almost 58% so month-over-month growth is positive. I thought previously they were 60%+ though. I can’t believe 5% of the internet population still uses AOL to search. Holdouts from the mid-90s I guess…
I don’t understand why anyone would use anything other than google or yahoo, and I do think that google is easier and quicker. I think others may gain some, but I would be surprised if google loses its leadership role anytime soon.