Market share for search engines is pretty important its always a great idea to stay up to date on what the fastest growing search engines are. Below I did some research on a few search engines and found out exactly what the share is of each search engine is, well a somewhat idea, but I think the results are pretty accurate. (results from 2006)

Google, By far the best search engines if you ask me its re indexing time of the pages are faster then any other search engines. Plus it finds the inbound links faster, then any other search engine. Google is by far the search engine of choice in the search world currently holds a market share of 43.7% (in 2006).

Yahoo, Yahoo use to be the hip hop search engines back in the late 90’s, but then Google pondered there way in and took over then better yet with the release of ad words which expanded Google big time and generating mass quantities of profits. Yahoo on the other hand is not as up to date as Google I guess you could say, its a great search engine don’t take me wrong, but its very slow I’m ranking in the top 5 for website design on Google, but in yahoo page 30, and I’ve notice Yahoo just picks things up too slowly such as inbound links, re indexing times, and etc.

Yahoo is currently holding a market share 28.8% .

MSN, MSN not a bad search engine, but they are even slower then yahoo at updating and re indexing, but from what I was told from someone that went to a recent SES conference is that MSN and Yahoo is going to move on to more of a Google based system, and if so that would be great maybe things would move a little bit faster with them.

MSN is currently holding a market share of 12.8%

AOL, Aol recently just updated now they are pulling there search results from Google if you go do a search at AOL you’ll see its pulling from Google’s results which is great I guess, so I guess you could add this market share on to Google if you get my drift.

AOL is currently holding a market share of 5.9%.

ASK, Don’t know and don’t use it. I’m just a Google Freak.

Ask is currently holding a market share of 5.4%.

The market share for all other search engines is 3.4%. I remember when the bigger players were Yahoo, Alta Vista, Web Crawler, and Northern Light. Some of these search engines were the bigger players back then, and Lycos too. Times have most certainly changed since the invention of the page rank system created by Larry page and Sergery Brinn which they started in a garage.

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