Have you ever wondered who ranks amongst the search engines, or who people are using? Nah, me neither. I mean as far as I can tell Google has the world by the keyboards on this one!
But just in case you are curious, check out the Top 10 Search Providers on the internet, as provided by the Nielsen company Blog, during the month of October 2009:
| Top 10 Search Providers for October 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| RANK | Provider | Searches (000) | Share of Searches |
| Total | 10,218,842 | 100.0% | |
| 1 | Google Search | 6,759,395 | 66.1% |
| 2 | Yahoo! Search | 1,574,891 | 15.4% |
| 3 | MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search | 986,747 | 9.7% |
| 4 | AOL Search | 310,178 | 3.0% |
| 5 | Ask.com Search | 176,744 | 1.7% |
| 6 | My Web Search | 101,436 | 1.0% |
| 7 | Comcast Search | 51,995 | 0.5% |
| 8 | NexTag Search | 35,088 | 0.3% |
| 9 | BizRate Search | 30,690 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Yellow Pages Search | 30,422 | 0.3% |
PS: In case you didn’t notice, the search numbers are in the billions.
