Since there are always comments about what search engine brings what % of traffic, I thought it will be interesting to post this link here to an article at clickz http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/search_tools/article.php/3528456 were it says the market share of the search engine in a recent (July) survey. In summary it is like this google: 39.34 yahoo: 18.16 msn: 15.32
Local papers, (The Netherlands), published a survey taken amongst dutch internet searchers: google.com + google.nl has 80%+ market share; sounds more like what I see in my referrers...
can some what with right auths create a poll - thread here: "What SE do you use ?" as a poll. see what comes up. My guess: 99% google But if searches caused by bad hostnames (I make a lot of typos and end up with a MSN search page) also count, MSN is worth 10% ...
well i dont think so that this is right because i think googke has 50%+ market share where as yahoo has 30%+ and msn has only 5%+ and rest of the others
Google definitely has more, no matter what this link says. When I was in Google, G was sending me about 2000/3000 a day, compared to 100/day for MSN and Yahoo total. That's a massive number, and why EVERYONE wants/needs to get into google to have a successful site.
Well, this survey was taken from US users, so it also depends on from where your traffic is coming and on the topic of your site, since each search engine is used on different % to search for different topics.
from another report mentioned in this article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081000607.html: "Through June, Google held a 36.9 percent share of the U.S. search engine market with Yahoo at 30.4 percent, according to comScore Networks."
I just found this which is apparantly for August/Sept 2005 1. Google 56.9% 2. Yahoo 21.2% 3. MSN Search 8.9% 4. AOL Search 3.2% This is from one stat, but I'm looking for the Nielssen ratings whivch are usually the most accurate. Will post when I find them.
50% of staticstics are made up 35% have some kind of bias or disclaimer that makes it useless ( google has a 80% market share of males in towns that start with the letters a,b,and z , that can also stand in one feet for 10 minutes.)
Here is Nielson: http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156451 G - 46.2% Y! - 22.5% MSN - 12.6% AOL 5.4% then everyone else
According to Nielson, google almost 50%, I'm sure they will get at least 60% by the end of next year.
Google rules, end of story. (Kissassing google, maybe they'll forgive my last post about them.... ^^ )