Just as Google is trying to deflect growing antitrust concerns (see previous post), its core search market share also keeps on growing. ComScore’s August search engine market share numbers came out today—via Citi analyst Mark Mahaney—and are reproduced above. Its share of U.S. search queries rose in August to 63 percent, from 61.9 percent in July. Looks like its march towards monopoly is back on track after a slight dip in June.
Meanwhile, Yahoo’s share went down nearly a point from 20.5 percent to 19.6 percent. Again, Yahoo’s loss was almost exactly Google’s gain.
Not that Microsoft is doing much better. Its U.S. search share fell from 8.9 percent to 8.3 percent. Its Live Search Cashback promotion, which accounted for only 8 percent of its searches in August (78 million out of 977 million total search queries), is still not helping stem its decline.
Probably due to Sarah Palin and other Sh** that is going on. Btw she is nice MiL*
What happened to ‘Google Killer’ Cuil?
is good but need more promotion i think
Googl is a “Guess Engine” spitting back cyberspam algorithim mumbo jumbo results. the future search is in “Location Engines.”
googl wants to keep people confused. 17 million results for search term “plumber.” how that is organizational is beyond me.
you dont need an algorithim when everything has a Natural Language Location.
common sense and simplicity sure can go a long way in the search game.
http://www.killerstartups.com/.....or-network
MyLocator.com
Oh aren’t we all just waiting for Google to take over the world :/
Nope. Waiting for mylocator to take over the world. Only a matter of time before “location engines” are all the rage!
brainlocator.com
Hot dayum. What did I say in the beginning about Google still standing strong, despite financial collapsing…
lols which financial collapsing are you relating to .. .again LOL
Is there any historical correlation between GOOG adding 1% of search market to revenue. This would be good data to look at. Of course giving a margin or error would help.
Which company is more powerful overall, Google or Microsoft?
microsoft
microsoft - for at least a little while. maybe for a long while if ballmer quits.
GOOGLE is very smart about self promotion. Because the purpose is not to simply monetize on everything but to give the internet community as well as businesses great free services and products. Starting with the excellent search engine and expanding to gmail / calendars / maps / web development apps etc etc No other online community. or company that i know of has all these or similar services that are able to compete in quality for free… just compare the crappy microsoft virtual earth that spends millions in advertisements on transit tv etc to google earth who only advert themselves through ethically-legit non annoying but rather information related ways… thats the key is to advertise SMART>>>>>>>
Totally agree with that. They’ve done an incredible job of figuring out how to give things away for free, more or less, and yet maintain strong products, and a billion dollar company. Their adwords concept has worked out great.
I can’t remember the last time I used another search engine to be honest with you. It’s been years, I imagine.
Jake
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totally disagree with you. virtual earth is a high quality product.
what you got on google streets?
@ GEBADIA SMITH “Which company is more powerful overall, Google or Microsoft?”
re: are you kidding? do you type live search msn or google ?
@ GEBADIA SMITH
i mean you have to understand that each and every click that goes through google sponsored results gives google on avg 10-15 cents if not more… thats millions per hour honey
why do you just add links of the biggest 3 seach engines. please add “ask”
Wait… people still use AOL to search…?
I knew that a lot of people used Google, but it’s still kinda overwhelming that this young company has taken up a whole 63% of the search market. When Google comes down (as everything that goes up must come down, right?) , it will be extremely sad and brutal.
I hate to think of the power that google enjoys over us today and will in the future
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