December 11, 2007
Google, the New England Patriots of Search, Runs Up the Score on Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com
We’ve been printing the headlines for years now : Google Rules Search Market Share, Google Tops Yahoo & MSN in Search for March, Google : Dominant American Search Engine for 2005 … yada yada yada. Hitwise released a press release today about how they tracked how Google Dominates Search in November with some numbers to back up the claims.
Google has become the New England Patriots of Search. And according to Hitwise, even though they have a vast lead on Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com, they continue to run up the score “Google accounted for 65.10 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending December 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 21.21, 7.09 and 4.63 percent respectively. The remaining 46 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.96 percent of U.S. searches.” (more…)
