Google Market Share Up (Again)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007;
-- Jordan McCollum |
Hitwise released their April 2007 search engine market share numbers today—and, surprise, surprise, Google is still way out in front, climbing just over a percentage point over March’s numbers. Google’s latest piece of the pie: 65.26% to Yahoo’s 20.73%, MSN’s 8.46% and Ask’s 3.69%. Take a look:
source: Hitwise
Look, Mom, that purple PacMan is going to eat all the other pieces!
Google is not the only SE to gain over March’s numbers; Ask’s share increased 0.21 percentage points over March. Yahoo declined by half a percentage point and MSN/Live declined by over 2/3 of a percentage point. Tiny changes, yes, but I’ll bet Yahoo and MSN/Live hope they’re not indicative of a larger trend.
The larger trend? Year-over-year, only Google has grown (up 11%). Yahoo is down 7%, Ask is down 13% and MSN is down 33%. These are roughly the same growth rates from last month’s year-over-year numbers.
Hitwise also found that search engines in general (and specifically Google) are driving proportionally more traffic to specific industries:
Comparing April 2007 to April 2006 - Travel, Entertainment and Business and Finance categories received more than double digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
Somehow, I think more than TV commercials are in order. How long before this affects revenues and stock prices?
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May 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Dominance… isn’t it impressive?
May 9th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Great post. Do you have a link to the original report by Hitwise (if it is public)?
May 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I don’t; I looked around their website for the press release which we received by e-mail. It wasn’t on their site yet. They do still have March’s data.
May 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“Look, Mom, that purple PacMan is going to eat all the other pieces!”
You’ve been blogging her too long already!
May 10th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Google eats the biggest part, my visitors comes from google mostly (75%)
May 10th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Isn’t it clear, I would be surprise if it declined after all acquisitions they made Google should be stronger and stronger.
May 10th, 2007 at 5:41 am
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May 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I love the pacman reference b/c sometimes I feel like Google IS eating the competition up
May 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Search is in DIRE need of a competitor, more now then ever before :-/
Someone step up and do something please.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
For some of our sites particularly in th B2B it even higher in some cases as high as 80%.
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