Nielson Releases Search Data For November

2009 January 5
by MHB

Nielson Research released its November search share ratings by provider today.

The research shows that Google Year to Year growth was almost 22% while Yahoo search was down 1.5% and Microsoft Search was down almost 17%, here are the full results

Provider                 Searches (000)    YOY Growth    Share of Searches
                         --------------- --------------  -----------------
All Search                     8,075,564            9.6%             100.0%
Google Search                  5,177,158           21.7%              64.1%
Yahoo! Search                  1,299,306           -1.4%              16.1%
MSN/Windows Live Search          733,460          -16.7%               9.1%
AOL Search                       344,465            3.6%               4.3%
Ask.com Search                   184,059           -6.0%               2.3%
My Web Search                     71,113          -18.3%               0.9%
Comcast Search                    40,645            3.5%               0.5%
AT&T Worldnet Search              25,351          -13.3%               0.3%
NexTag Search                     22,308          -19.5%               0.3%
Dogpile.com Search                17,121           -6.5%               0.2%
6 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 January 5
    Ricardo permalink

    Unfortunately, Google has 64% market share.

    Yahoo and Microsoft combined is only 25%

    That means that Google will continue to stick their hand deeper into our pocket until they can figure out how to turn the pocket inside-out.

    It is a bad situation that we have to depend on Google for a majority of our revenue.

  2. 2009 January 5

    indeed! with google ruleing the roost its going to take some cunning for people to move up in the domaining world!

  3. 2009 January 5

    You don’t have to depend on Google for most of your revenue… :)

    People just choose to “partner” up with Google, and of course there will be more partnering up with Google since they are the pioneer and leader in search, advertising, etc.

    If you do not like how things are going, nobody is holding you hostage over at Google. Feel free to leave (break free from the whatever relationship you have with Google) and part ways. It’s really not that difficult… Sure it will be hard, but come on — say it how it is :)

    Best,
    Mike

  4. 2009 January 5

    And Microsoft thinks it can catch Google? With what, the quality of their brand?

    Gee, if they only had Vista Search… it would be a real winner NOT.

  5. 2009 January 5
    Frank Michlick permalink

    Interesting how NextAG made it into those listings.

  6. 2009 January 6

    These figures arent very surprising!

    Google is still number one and I only see this growing stronger with Chrome now launched.

    Regards,

    Robbie

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