If anybody knows what is yahoo's market share in the search engine now? amazing how the company once was #1 in the web search engine business, now is almost non existent there... interesting if google will keep ruling the the web or there are any promising start ups on the horizon, I think it is even kind of scary that one company controls almost all flow of traffic on the internet, this is probably now the biggest monopoly in the world...
Here is some interesting sources of reported made by Comscore Bing gains US search market share for 10th straight month Bing Took Another Slice Of Yahoo’s Market Share in February 16.9% Market share for Yahoo isn't that bad if you think Yahoo has never done any new things news lately, while Microsoft done on changed from MSN to Bing at least. lol
Yahoos share in the US increased from 16.8% to 16.9%, while Bings share also increased slightly. Google on the other hand suffered a decline. Heres the article. Its US figures only looks like http://www.nydailynews.com/money/20...yahoo__but_shares_just_169.html#ixzz0khAWEw3w
yahoo should have accepted microsoft's offer long time ago. Google is #1 in searches, and youtube is #2 that says a lot
January 2010 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings In the January analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with more than 14 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion queries and Microsoft Sites with 1.8 billion searches. Bing experienced large growth during the month with an 11-percent increase in query volume to reach more than 1.5 billion searches. Craigslist jumped one position to #6 with 636 million searches, while Facebook grew to 395 million searches, representing a 13-percent increase from the previous month. comScore Expanded Search Query Report Peddu Hostcats.com
February search results show that Bing continues to grow as Yahoo sags. Comscore reported that usage of Bing went up from 11.3% in January to 11.5% in February, while Yahoo’s stats during the same period dropped to 16.8% from 17%. Google’s stats remained essentially unchanged. The most impressive figures for Bing, however, come from a report written by Morgan Stanley analyst Imran Khan. Khan stated that Microsoft’s year on year search growth for the month of February was 55.4%, up from January’s similarly impressive 49% year on year search growth. In the same period, Yahoo’s seen year on year search volume shrink 9.8% in February and 8.9% in January. So what does this mean for the search market? It means that Bing has continued to grow, and more importantly, that Bing’s growth appears to be accelerating. This appears to be due to a combination of factors. First, Bing is apparently luring considerable numbers of users away from Yahoo. This suggests that Bing’s extensive marketing efforts have succeeded to some extent. Second, Google’s growth appears to be slowing down a little bit. Year on Year total searches for January and February increased by 12.4% and 10.4% respectively. Google’s Year on Year search growth for these months barely outpaced total search growth, coming in at 16.7% and 14.3% respectively. It appears that the search market is consolidating somewhat. Bing’s market share is inching upwards, at the expense of everyone else except Google. When Yahoo essentially concedes their search engine to Bing, it will be interesting to see if Bing is able to take a bite out of Google
I'm guessing the REAL numbers are not even close to the publicly released data; lately I'm going to make an educated guess and say the real #s look like this 70%G/18%Y/12%B (max) , with big G doing likely 70+
Actually the real winner is Google once again! Yahoo stops developing search technology and BINGs search technology is weak at best (almost no long tail). Really, Google now only has one competitor, BING - who is bleeding money...