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User reach for search engines in December: Google - 44.9%, Yahoo! - 32%
According to Nielsen//NetRatings report on top 15 search destinations in December 2004, top search engines - Google and Yahoo! - hd a total reach of 76.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings report on top 15 search destinations in December 2004, top search engines - Google and Yahoo! - hd a total reach of 76.9% of Internet users. The numbers do not add up to 100%, since many of Web surfers turn to different search engines. Also worth noting that more people searched on Microsoft.com (Microsoft's corporate site, not the MSN search engine) than AltaVista.
| Search engine market shares for December 2004 | |
| Search engine | Market share % of users |
| 44.9 | |
| Yahoo! | 32.0 |
| MSN | 25.2 |
| AOL | 17.0 |
| Ask | 7.8 |
| Information.com | 7.7 |
| Overture | 3.8 |
| Netscape Search | 3.1 |
| InfoSpace | 2.9 |
| Microsoft.com | 2.9 |
| Myway.com | 2.7 |
| WebSearch.com | 2.7 |
| AltaVista | 2.2 |
| HighBeam Research | 2.1 |
| Lycos | 1.9 |
| Source: Nielsen NetRatings | |