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Google Continues to Dominate U.S. Search Market

Slimy   on 16 January 2007 - 13:34 · 4 comments & 1738 views

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ComScore Networks' monthly analysis found that in the last month of 2006 (that's December for all North Americans still half asleep) Google not only continued to dominate the search engine market, but improved gained market share. Google had 47.4% of the US search market, an increase of 0.4% over November 2006. Yahoo also progressed, by 0.3%, and captured 28.5% of the market.

The article refers to MSN-Microsoft but I’ll assume that includes Windows Live Search. Regardless, it Microsoft did not grow. The software giant took 10.5%, Ask (without Jeeves) took 5.4% and Time Warner (AOL) grabbed 4.9%. Americans searched 1% more than the previous month, aka 6.7 billion searches.

News source: vnunet.com

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(1 reply) #1 Dakkaroth on 16 Jan 2007 - 13:44
I stopped going to Ask when Jeeves left.
#1.1 bluewind_89 on 16 Jan 2007 - 17:34
I stopped going after middle school.
(1 reply) #2 Jugalator on 16 Jan 2007 - 19:19
Not surprising... There's not exactly been any revolutions in web searching even the past 5 years or so... IMO, things have stalled a bit, speaking of web searching at least. New Live! Search "Google killers" that clearly aren't, and so on, not that Google is constantly improving much in web search, but because the competition isn't really improving much either. It seems to be mostly about more or less simple add-on features to the core search, new UI's, and rebrandings to make things keep feeling "fresh".

"Can we not doing bettar?", as my Japanese teacher used to say.
#2.1 WDGC on 16 Jan 2007 - 20:23
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... There's not exactly been any revolutions in web searching even the past 5 years or so... IMO, things have stalled a bit, speaking of web searching at least.


Just so.

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