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Top 20 UK search engines
Nielsen//NetRatings presented its findings on December 2004 search engine usage in the United Kingdom. Google, Yahoo!
Nielsen//NetRatings presented its findings on December 2004 search engine usage in the United Kingdom. Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Tiscali Search and MyWay are generating the most referrals from British users, but as far as popularity of the search engines themselves (in terms of unique visits), the leaders are Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, MSN and Kelkoo.
Top 20 UK search engines | |||
| Search engine |
Click-through per searcher | Rank by click-through | Rank by unique visits |
| 17.9 | 1 | 1 | |
| Yahoo! | 14.5 | 2 | 2 |
| AltaVista | 13.6 | 3 | 15 |
| Tiscali | 7.8 | 4 | 12 |
| MyWay | 6.0 | 5 | 6 |
| MSN | 5.5 | 7 | 4 |
| Wanadoo | 5.5 | 6 | 10 |
| Lycos | 4.8 | 8 | 16 |
| Ask Jeeves | 4.5 | 9 | 3 |
| Dogpile.com | 2.7 | 10 | 18 |
| AOL | 2.3 | 11 | 7 |
| Lycos Europe | 2.0 | 12 | 13 |
| YELL.com | 1.6 | 13 | 9 |
| Search the Web! | 1.5 | 14 | 19 |
| DealTime | 1.2 | 15 | 11 |
| Kelkoo | 1.1 | 16 | 5 |
| NexTag | 1.0 | 17 | 8 |
| WebFetch | 0.5 | 19 | 14 |
| Shopping.com | 0.5 | 18 | 20 |
| Info.com | 0.4 | 20 | 17 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||