If you can be at the top of any search engine, the one you should choose is Google. The reason is very simple; more people use Google than any other search engine. Google receives millions of search engine enquiries every day, missing out on targeted traffic would be a big mistake. Google has accounted more than half the searches made online: Google %63 Yahoo %21 Msn %8.5 Aol %3.9 Ask %3.6 Thanks
Actually, these are old stats. AOL returns Google results. MSN Search is now Bing. Bing will be powering Yahoo search by the end of this year. Google gets roughly 400 million searches per day. If you need to post well-known banalities such as "Google is important," at least get your data right. The latest search engine market share can be found here: http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/comscore-february-2010/
my data is from "comScore" which is the same as yours, maybe 2008 or so. no harm anyway. Chin up mate.
Even with the latest marketshare, Google is still number preferred search engines. It may has some exception in some country like "Yahoo" is the most preferred search engine by Japanese and "Baidu" is the most preferred search engine by Chinese. Google has built up because of its quality but now a branding only. Most of searchers just go for Google and not even care if the results may not be best for some keyword. Google has a strong brand and that is why Google is important for many webmasters. They can get huge amount of traffics if they site ranked high enough in Google first page, that means their higher revenue of course.
Another thing that makes Google important is their services, and their services are just keep improving and adding more, most are user-friendly so they have loyal users.
I think that stats must have gone done after Google has stopped its search engine from China. But no doubt its still number one with the maximum results as compared to the others.
I think everyone who knows how to surf the internet also knows about google. Even if they are using another type of search engine and if they can't find what they are searching they still tends to use google.
i think google is a best search engine now.. in my country we use google .. and google is popular search engine
their is no doubt about that google is number one everyone reffers google to search for something and most the internet users has set the google as their homepage may be because the first search engine one everr heared in life is usualy google and also because of the extra services of goole it has become so popular
I think people jumped on the thread, pointing out old stats, as a polite way to say,... tell us something we didn't know already. I mean come on, people! Stephen C
My website is page 1 for my keyword on yahoo, but page 4 on google. I've had absolutely no traffic from yahoo, but a couple from google (this is a new site hence the low traffic) so yeah my experience definitely agrees.
Its old result, But no doubt its still number one. Google have lots of Services and maximum results as compared to any others search engine.