3. Yes, I am surprised. My previous statistics were evidently a
bit outdated as I had the search engine war between the
Big 3 Providers -- Google, Yahoo, and MSN -- running a
tight 1-2-3. Indeed, it must have been early in 2005 the
last time I bothered to look at the statistics, but at that
time my stats showed that Google controlled 36% while
Yahoo and MSN were running at 33% and 32%
respectively. Yes, the statistics total to more than 100%
since they include those people who use more than one
search engine [in this case they are counted twice].
4.
5. Google is the Internet's most-used search engine, with a
45.1% share of searches in September, according to
market tracker Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo (YHOO) had
23.3% and MSN 11.7%, says Nielsen.
6. To put it bluntly, only Yahoo is in the game and MSN is
quickly fading to irrelevancy. How can I say this? Because
when I do searches of key words that I frequently check up
on including, Corporate Flight Attendant Community, I find
some vastly different results.
7. With MSN, the search results yielded 3117 results, with
Yahoo 326, and with Google 9850. What is apparent to me
is that Google is doing the best job of indexing pages while
the other two are way behind. I will give MSN credit for
the recent leap in the number of results for Corporate
Flight Attendant Community, but several of the results
were for pages I deleted months, even years ago! Overall, I
believe Yahoo harnesses their popular Yahoo Groups,
Hotjobs, and other key features to give them a search
engine edge over MSN.