MSN is finally making gains against giant search engines as Google and Yahoo! MSN literally lost years of search market share and have now at least made minor gains against Google. Latest ComScore results have revealed that following are major engines:
- Google site dropped a total of 1.2% with 50.7% market share in May 2007 and 49.5% share in June 2007.
- Yahoo1 had market share of 26.4% in May 2007 and 25.1% in June 2007 with overall drop of 1.3%.
- Microsoft site had an overall gain of 2.9% with 10.3% in May and 13.2% in June.
- The ask network was steady at 5.0% market share.
- The Time Warner Network dropped from 4.6% to 4.2% from May to June 2007.
- ComScore also disclosed some other facts and statistics as:
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- In June 2007, Americans conducted 8.0 billion online searches which was 6 percent higher than may 2007 and almost 26 percent more when compared with June 2006 results.
- Google solved 4.0 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo sites with 2.0 billion and Microsoft sites with 1.1 billion search queries handled. Ask network had 403 million and Time Warner Network dealt with 341 million search queries. The search market in June declined but still Google and yahoo had increased search query volume.
- Microsoft sites experienced a momentous increase in search query volume which is about 36 percent up and search engine share with approximate 2.9 share points up in June. Microsoft launched a large part to live search club, in late may which engaged and rewarded users of live search.
- ComScore is a great base to know about search market share and even lets one know about latest hit search engine which helps web developers a lot.