Thursday, August 9, 2007

Google, utterly dominant, still growing

SEARCH giant Google not only completely dominates the global search market – commanding nine out of ten searches – but is still growing its market share, according to online metrics specialist XitiMonitor.

According to XitiMonitor' monthly search barometer, Google accounted for 89.53 per cent of all search-generated visits in June 2007, up from 89.33 per cent (up 0.21 per cent) from May.

And Google's market share had grown by 3.7 per cent compared to the year-ago search barometer in June 2006.

The four other principal search engines have all seen their market share decline.
Number Two search engine has been the biggest loser in the past year, losing 1.25 percentage points to 3.21 per cent of the market.

Microsoft search fell year on year, but is the only other Top Five search engines to grow its market share between May and June. Microsoft commands 2.3 per cent of the market.

Other Top Five search engines were Orange and Free.

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