Search Engine Market Shares - December

January 2, 2007| 3 Comments »

As promised, I’m posting the search engine breakdowns for December. Additionally, I’m posting breakdowns for intervals within the month.

Please note - we’re only reporting the search engine referral market shares.

Engine

Google

Yahoo

MSN

Google Images

AOL

Ask

MSN Live

Comcast

Google News

My Web Search

Dogpile

Netscape

BellSouth

MyWay

Froogle

Earthlink

Yahoo Images

Altavista

December

76.101%

7.786%

4.228%

2.925%

1.598%

0.790%

0.602%

0.546%

0.505%

0.423%

0.333%

0.282%

0.277%

0.248%

0.239%

0.220%

0.209%

0.197%

November

78.2139%

5.9433%

3.9670%

2.8089%

1.8245%

1.0584%

0.7158%

0.5042%

0.3825%

0.3333%

0.3012%

0.2824%

0.2711%

0.2524%

0.2301%

0.2155%

0.1727%

0.1690%

Now for the interesting part - I decided to break it down into 5 day segments.

December

Google

Yahoo

MSN

Google Images

AOL

Ask

MSN Live

Comcast

Google News

My Web Search

Dogpile

Netscape

BellSouth

MyWay

Froogle

Earthlink

Yahoo Images

Altavista

1-5

78.433%

6.828%

3.653%

2.712%

1.802%

0.732%

0.413%

0.498%

0.505%

0.395%

0.297%

0.285%

0.250%

0.230%

0.138%

0.220%

0.153%

0.193%

6-10

77.234%

7.849%

3.897%

2.577%

1.670%

0.765%

0.454%

0.478%

0.415%

0.389%

0.307%

0.279%

0.269%

0.228%

0.206%

0.225%

0.153%

0.194%

11-15

77.914%

7.199%

4.052%

2.474%

1.419%

0.771%

0.433%

0.722%

0.576%

0.372%

0.317%

0.239%

0.211%

0.210%

0.207%

0.183%

0.171%

0.179%

16-20

75.821%

7.512%

4.299%

2.986%

1.649%

0.881%

0.564%

0.493%

0.464%

0.442%

0.320%

0.281%

0.250%

0.267%

0.302%

0.238%

0.250%

0.192%

21-25

74.736%

8.104%

4.307%

3.260%

1.687%

0.700%

0.675%

0.507%

0.558%

0.468%

0.311%

0.313%

0.276%

0.285%

0.258%

0.262%

0.335%

0.219%

26-31

69.630%

10.009%

5.679%

4.112%

1.349%

0.909%

1.327%

0.532%

0.538%

0.537%

0.405%

0.291%

0.243%

0.314%

0.405%

0.244%

0.300%

0.222%

My thoughts as I look at the data?

  • Google’s usage drops markedly when people are not at work
  • MSN / MSN live is growing steadily
  • ASK & AOL dropped - I’m surprised Ask dropped at all
  • A heck of a lot of people shop online at the last minute - look at Froogle’s blip
  • and of course… people still use Altavista!

We’ve noticed before that there is a drop in Google’s usage vis-a-vis certain Holidays. This one was not as marked as one other in particular I can remember. It will be interesting to monitor the trend during year as the holiday’s occur.

Next month, in honor of SES London, I’ll try and post some UK numbers.

I look forward to your comments. I suspect that breaking down the month in 5 day segments is too much for many people - hopefully it’s interesting for some.

3 Comments

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