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Old 08-17-2006, 07:34 PM  
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Interesting Google stats / market share.

Just saw this....
This report http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156451 shows Google having a 46% on searches made with Yahoo a huge 23%.

An Alexa guy (I assume) did his own homework analyzing the Alexa stats and came up with the following which hits home Google`s dominance:

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Does Yahoo really still have 23% of the search market? Is Google at less than half the search market?

I don't believe it. Any webmaster will tell you that Google represents almost ALL of the search engine traffic. Yahoo is nowhere near 23%. Just read the blogs, here, here, here and here and on countless other blogs.

So I decided to poke around Alexa's stats and generate my own search engine market share graph. According to my calcs, Google is at almost 85% market share. Yahoo is at 9%. This seems to mirror what I expected.
I'm not sure why the premier (read: expensive) services don't match what everybody sees in their logs...

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