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Hitwise: Alt Search Engines getting nowhere

According to this month’s Hitwise report:

From August 2007 to August 2008:

Yahoo! lost ground from 22.87% to 18.26%

MSN lost ground from 6.53% to 5.32%

Ask lost ground from 3.49% to 3.45%

Google took up the slack 63.98% to 71.01%

Our beloved Alts started with 3.13% of the pie and ended a year later with 1.96%.

Comments?   Thoughts?   Solutions?

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One Response to “Hitwise: Alt Search Engines getting nowhere”

  1. Troy Says:
    September 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    One question I have is what is the criteria Hitwise is using to judge marketshare.
    For example, if a site is using Google CSE as their internal search engine, is it providing an additional bump to Google?

    What might be interesting to see is if there’s a correlation of alt market loss compared to when the majors opened up their API’s. (eg. Google CSE & Yahoo! BOSS).

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