Search Engine Wars | Domination of Google, decline of Yahoo and MSN
March 29th, 2007
Social Media Systems Social Media Marketing and Website Design Company
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For those of you that aren’t addicted to search engine marketing blogs the results regarding the current search engine market share have been released from a number of different sources each one using separate metrics. They been complied and analyzed by Danny Sullivan of Searchengineland here (it’s a VERY long article).
Here’s the jist. Most the sources agree Google is dominant and it’s market is increasing. Yahoo is plummeting, and MSN Live has just leveled off after severely plummeting for months. Ask is still around and holding it’s very niche market share just fine.
So basically, Google is THE search engine and Yahoo has lost much of the market share it had.
What to watch for:
There have been numerous negative rumors flying around the blogosphere about the integrity of Yahoo’s search results being comprised from paid listings and webmasters getting more of their pages indexed if they put Yahoo search on their site. That’s not good when their market share is already on such shaky ground. I predict Yahoo’s Search Engine percentage will decrease even more in the next 6 months.
Can Microsoft save MSN Live?
I don’t know. They haven’t been doing well with Vista, but I don’t think they’ll give up this easily.
How big can Google’s peace of the pie get?
I wonder how large or dominant a single company can get, before a new competitor emerges, the company splinters or something else happens.
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The Author: Solomon Rothman
About: Solomon Rothman is currently the CIO for socialmediasystems.com. He authors multiple blogs which are syndicated by publications like Webpronews and is recognized as an expert author on search marketing & web design / development. Solomon has worked for multiple .com companies and subcontracted as a both a designer and search marketing consultant for both large and small corporations. Solomon loves the ongoing challenges and creativity the online marketing world requires to be successful. Besides technology, Solomon's other passions include filmmaking & screenwriting.
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