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ComScore on top search engines for December 2004: Google - 35%, Yah00 -32%
SearchEngineWatch reports on qSearch data, reported by ComScore Media Metrix, on Web searches done in December 2004. Google leads the market share with 35% of the Web searches, but Google is also a back-end engine for AOL Search and Excite, which would bump Google's share of the search to 44%.
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SearchEngineWatch reports on qSearch data, reported by ComScore Media Metrix, on Web searches done in December 2004. Google leads the market share with 35% of the Web searches, but Google is also a back-end engine for AOL Search and Excite, which would bump Google's share of the search to 44%.
Search engine market shares for December 2004 | |
Search engine | Market share % of searches done |
35 | |
Yahoo! | 32 |
MSN | 16 |
AOL | 9 |
Excite | 4 |
Ask | 2 |
Others | 2 |
Source: ComScore Media Matrix |