Survey confirms Google as world's top search engine
10 May 2004
Google is still the most popular search engine in the world, a new report claims.
Research by web analytics provider OneStat found that Google is the most used search engine, with a 56.4 per cent market share, followed by Yahoo in second place with 21.1 per cent.
Google's global share increased .03 per cent in 5 months. OneStat's findings are based on the last 2 months worth of usage from a sample of 2 million visitors in 100 countries.
The top seven search engines, according to OneStat, are:
1. Google 56.4 per cent
2. Yahoo 21.1 per cent
3. MSN Search 9.2 per cent
4. AOL Search 3.8 per cent
5. Terra Lycos two per cent
6. AltaVista 1.7 per cent
7. AskJeeves 1.7 per cent
"Our real-time web analytics are the ultimate solution to measure traffic from search engines to a web site. Each web site owner and marketer can analyze what kind of search engines & keywords the visitors use to find a web site," Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com, commented.
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