Comments on: Google’s Market Share Growth Stalls

By: Perde

Perde — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:22:52 +0000

MSN Live’s increase is remarkable. I have no idea how they gain such progress while they obviously are far behind Y! ang Google. Consider this : Live: seo Page 1 of 5,668,469 results
Yahoo!: 1 – 10 of about 156,000,000 for seo

By: Virtual Marketing Blog: A Professional Internet Marketing Blog

Virtual Marketing Blog: A Professional Internet Marketing Blog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:13:05 +0000

[...] Marketing Pilgrim writes: Ask fared the best in growth this month. Perhaps their algorithm commercials are paying off (â€chicks with swordsâ€ premiered this month). Not only was their numerical growth the largest of any search engine (up 0.23 percentage points), but their relative growth was seven times that of the next largest relative growth percentage. Askâ€™s numbers were up 5.9% over Aprilâ€™s. Which just goes to show you that when your market share is very small, even very small changes can look huge. [...]

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:41:56 +0000

@Mike–there are 49 other search engines that Hitwise includes; they receive 1.66% of Maysearches total.

By: horisly

horisly — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:26:27 +0000

google and yahoo are growing.
pity for msn.
microsoft is dropping behind google

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:03:33 +0000

I suppose Google was overdue for a month where they didn’t grow. April was the month when Google announced plans to acquire DoubleClick. I wonder if the privacy fears have anything to do with the loss.

And maybe most of us are wrong and the Ask advertising campaign is working a little better than we think.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:47 +0000

Do they factor in things like Technorati, icerocket, etc. when they come up with those stats? I’m sure it would be a pretty small factor, but I’m curious if those are considered real search engines in reports like this.