Google: the biggest still gets bigger
Posted 23 April 2007 at 8:41AM by Simon Dickson in Managing your website
You probably knew that Google was the number one search engine... but it might surprise you to learn by how much. The latest UK market share data from analysts Hitwise, for the four weeks to 14 April, puts Google at a whopping 79.4%... and still rising, up 4% on the same time last year.
If you're interested in the rest - and you'd be forgiven for writing them all off: Yahoo is second with a mere 7.7%, followed by Microsoft on 5.3% (if you combine its two search engine properties, MSN Search and Live.com), with Ask.com just behind. By comparison, there's a bit more competition for Google across the Atlantic: data for March put its US market share at 64%, with Yahoo on 21%, and Microsoft on 9%.
Google.co.uk is the number one website in the UK, receiving an astonishing 8.1% of all UK internet visits, with two-and-a-half times the traffic of the second-placed site, eBay.co.uk.
So does Google have search sewn up? Not necessarily... internet users with long memories may remember an equally revolutionary and equally dominant search engine called AltaVista. AltaVista? Who are they? Exactly.
Tags: altavista, google, hitwise, microsoft, search engines, yahoo
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