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
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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%
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.
indeed! with google ruleing the roost its going to take some cunning for people to move up in the domaining world!
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
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.
Interesting how NextAG made it into those listings.
These figures arent very surprising!
Google is still number one and I only see this growing stronger with Chrome now launched.
Regards,
Robbie