April 10, 2009 3:04 PM PDT
March search share: Google up, rivals down
Google's share of the U.S. search market increased as its growth outpaced that of the market overall, according to new statistics from Nielsen Online.
The overall search market grew 16.7 percent to 9.5 billion searches from March 2008 to March 2009. Google's share of that grew 27.6 percent to 6.1 billion, Nielsen said Friday.
Yahoo, in second place, saw growth of 1.7 percent to 1.5 billion. Microsoft's grew 0.3 percent to about 982 million.
Overall, Google held 64.2 percent share to Yahoo's 15.8 percent and Microsoft's 10.3 percent.
Here are the full year-over-year (YOY) growth statistics from Nielsen:
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The stats you provided, coupled with some insights taken from the alleged "early adopter" traffic, and we could be seeing Google becoming even more dominant then they have already been.
I wrote more about our data here: http://weareorganizedchaos.com/index.php/2009/04/09/who-is-the-twitter-user-and-should-microsoft-hate-them/
do not want to be hit over the head with flashing garbage while they
read the content they came to the site for. People look at the text banners,
and look away or leave the pages of the flash ads --
-- found a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth
As far as Google's current competitors, no I don't use them either. I use Google myself because it's obviously superior to anything on the market right now. And this is the problem. The search engine market isn't like the browser market where you have a lot of different choices that have their own different features to meet people's needs. No, instead Google is your only choice and as long as it stays this way, you will never see any actual advances in search innovation. This is obvious by the fact that despite years of evolution on the web, Google stills looks like a static page with plain text.
The last time I recall Google adding any obvious new features to their search was when they added an autocomplete search drop-down. And ironically, they took that idea from their competitors. If you call this innovation then you'd probably be better off if Google never existed at all. Hey, I'm sure you wouldn't even notice the difference.
I think google search UI (not content) is really frozen in time, I really wish there would be more intelligent refine search filter after you search something - similar to kayak.com or indeed.com
I don't want to be too critical, Google is giving a lot back to developers' community more than Microsoft, Apple or Oracle.
Oh, and what's that other website? ... "Facebook"?
How many sites are there today?
Like: where is the best place to search for downloads?
A couple years ago I wrote this thing called <a href="http://gaggle.info/miscellaneous/articles/wisdom-of-the-language">Wisdom of the Language</a>. If people continue to pretend that the world-wide-web is merely an outgrowth of Google (instead of the other way around, which is much closer to being factually true), then they will continue to be misled.
As for such statistics, which tally up percentages for a small handful of websites... -- well, they completely miss what's actually happening on the actual web.
:) nmw
Google has open-source approach and yes their core values as one of the bests out there.... I would not put Apple with their close OS (with lawsuits if anybody tries to port it to non-apple hardware), closed (remember firewire?) hardware and proprietary iPod/iPhone connectors anywhere near Google's vision. Can you imagine where we would be if Apple would apply same open approach on iPod/iPhone what Google is applying in Android?
MS at least has no intelligence at all when it comes to search. their model is to generate money from ads they are strictly looking at $ while google is trying to perfect the art adn then make money the focus of value is in the quality of their product and their strict adherance to core values. their is refined elegance in their simplicity. go google go
- by ibudclark April 12, 2009 3:31 PM PDT
- fabuous and expected but wait what about recent headline that YouTube now number 2 ranked SEARCH ENGINE?
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