Search Engine Rankings from 2001
by Chris on Sep.19, 2007, under search marketing
Yesterday HitWise came out with their monthly rankings of search volume by engine. According to them, Google now has 64% of the U.S. search market. The top 4 looked like this:
Google: 64.0%
Yahoo: 22.9%
MSN: 8.0%
Ask: 3.5%
That leaves just 1.6% for everyone else.
It just so happens that yesterday I came across an email I’d sent to a client with the top 20 search engines in 2001:
Search Engines
Yahoo! 30.9%
Google 26.2%
MSN 14.9%
AOL.com Search 8.7%
GoTo.com/Overture 3.2%
AltaVista 3.0%
Netscape Search 2.1%
Dogpile 1.9%
CNET Search.com 1.9%
MSN – Canada 1.2%
DirectHit 1.0%
LookSmart 1.0%
Lycos 1.0%
Excite 0.7%
Oingo 0.6%
HotBot 0.6%
Metacrawler 0.4%
Ask Jeeves 0.3%
Mamma 0.2%
All The Web 0.2%
Interesting to see how many have either disappeared or faded into obscurity in that time. A much more diverse field, with those engines outside the top 4 accounting for a full 19.3% of the market.
