Search Engine Usage
The Search Engine Journal recently collected some interesting numbers about search engine usage - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2545. For those of us in the search engine positioning business, it is no surprise. Search engine usage is up.
According to comScore, average daily search engine usage was up from 49.3 million users in September 2004 to 60 million users in September 2005. Similarly, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that among the people who regularly use the Internet, daily use of search engines had grown from 30% to 41% (59 million users).
ComScore's search market-share data showed some interesting results too:
Google —89.8 million unique searches
Yahoo! Search—68 million unique searches
MSN Search—49.7 million unique searches
Ask Jeeves—43.7 million unique searches
AOL Search—36.1 million unique searches
It obviously pays to have a presence on all of the search engines.
According to comScore, average daily search engine usage was up from 49.3 million users in September 2004 to 60 million users in September 2005. Similarly, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that among the people who regularly use the Internet, daily use of search engines had grown from 30% to 41% (59 million users).
ComScore's search market-share data showed some interesting results too:
Google —89.8 million unique searches
Yahoo! Search—68 million unique searches
MSN Search—49.7 million unique searches
Ask Jeeves—43.7 million unique searches
AOL Search—36.1 million unique searches
It obviously pays to have a presence on all of the search engines.
posted by Kibeth @ 9:37 AM
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