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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 |