Alt Search Engines Gain Market Share – Not!

Google accounted for 71.97% of all US searches in the four weeks ending Nov. 29, 2008, while Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask received 17.70%, 5.45% and 3.35%, respectively, according to data from Hitwise. Source: Hitwise

November 2007 -to- November 2008:

*Yahoo! down from 21.62% to 17.70%

*MSN was down from 9.80% to 5.45%

*Ask.com down from 3.72% to 3.35%

*Search engines from 1.71% to 1.53%

*The remaining 43 search engines together accounted for 1.53% of US searches.

*November was the fourth straight month that MSN/Live Search increased its search share.

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