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The Search Engines
Which are the most important
search engines? Although the information changes from time to
time, the most recent stats (Comscore.com
- April 2006) we have are shown on the following
chart.
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Share of
Online Searches by Engine
April 2006
vs. April 2005
Total U.S.
Home, Work and University Internet Users
Source:
comScore qSearch |
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Apr-05 |
Mar-06 |
Apr-06 |
Pt Chg
vs. Yr Ago |
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Total
Internet Searches |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
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Google Sites |
36.5% |
42.7% |
43.1% |
6.6 |
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Yahoo! Sites |
30.7% |
28.0% |
28.0% |
-2.7 |
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MSN-Microsoft Sites |
16.1% |
13.2% |
12.9% |
-3.2 |
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Time Warner
Network |
9.0% |
7.6% |
6.9% |
-2.1 |
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Ask Network |
6.1% |
5.9% |
5.8% |
-0.3 |
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MySpace.com Search |
N/A |
N/A |
0.6% |
N/A |
Our Experience with Search
Engine Traffic
Our access to visitor statistics
for the sites we host and the sites we position closely follows the
chart above. Google, Yahoo, and MSN provide most of the
visitors with AOL (Time Warner Network) a distant fourth. The traffic from the other
search engines shown on the chart is negligible or in many cases
non-existent.
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