February 2006 Search Engine Market Share
Search Engine Market Share for February 2006
This article shows data from the United States ( Year over Year )
NEW YORK - Google’s market share has risen 6 percentage points in the U.S. search market based on total queries. It is pulling ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN, according to data released Tuesday March 28 2006 according to Reuters.
United States Search Engine market share summary for February 2006
Google = 42.3 percent
Yahoo = 27.6 percent
MSN = 13.5 percent
Google’s market share went from 36.3 up to 42.3 percent in February a year earlier, according to data provided by ComScore.
Yahoo’s market share went from 31.1 down to 27.6 percent from a year erlier.
MSN’s market share went fell from 16.3 down to 13.5 percent from last year.
Ask.com was the only other search engine to gain market share - from 5.3 up to 6 percent from a year earlier.
Google, had an 11 percent increase in total search queries for the month and this shows a healthy sector.
“We expect Google’s increased market share in search queries, and better monetization of queries to lead to increased share of ad dollars relative to its competitors” in the first half of 2006, Merrill Lynch analysts Justin Post and Lauren Rich Fine wrote Tuesday.
Merrill Lynch said Google also stood to gain in the coming months as its main competitors “struggle” to improve the technology and experience surrounding their search engines.
Google revenue rose 20 % in the third quarter of 2005, even though the number of searches on it’s site were down during that quarter.