Well the score is in: Google has resoundingly thumped Yahoo and MSN in the ongoing search engine wars. I wouldnt have believed it if I hadnt read it myself; Google continues to grow in size and popularity while Yahoo and MSN continue to firm up their also ran positions. What does this mean for you? Plenty, especially if you are wasting your time with the other search engines.
Yes, I am surprised. My previous statistics were evidently a bit outdated as I had the search engine war between the Big 3 Providers — Google, Yahoo, and MSN — running a tight 1-2-3. Indeed, it must have been early in 2005 the last time I bothered to look at the statistics, but at that time my stats showed that Google controlled 36% while Yahoo and MSN were running at 33% and 32% respectively. Yes, the statistics total to more than 100% since they include those people who use more than one search engine [in this case they are counted twice].
According to the Neilsen//NetRatings and as republished in the October 20, 2005, issue of USAToday, Googles share is as follows:
Google is the Internet’s most-used search engine, with a 45.1% share of searches in...
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