Google is the Search King

Google is still the search king according to new data from HitWise. In article citing HitWise's statistics, IT Wire reports that Google has 47.4% of the search market. However, they trail their competitors in services like web-based mail, online news and digital mapping.
According to the newly released Hitwise figures, Google has 47.4% share of the search market, which is pushing toward double the combined shares of Yahoo (16%) and Microsoft's MSN (11.5%). However, based on the same set of figures, outside of the search space Google does not seem to have gained much traction at all. Yahoo Mail rules the roost with 42.4%, followed by Microsoft's Hotmail with 22.9%. By comparison, Google's Gmail does not rate, with just 2.54%

Google also does not do well in online news or finance areas, where once again Yahoo wins out easily. In finance, Google, with just 0.29% share is absolutely dwarfed by Yahoo, which has 34.9%, with Microsoft's MSN providing at least respectable competition with 13.4% share. News is more fragmented but Google once again has just 1.9% share compared to Yahoo's 6.3%.
A ComScore study also shows Google pulling away from its competitors in search.

Tags: google | search-engines

Posted on May 25, 2006
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