Search engine market share - which do you use?
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I've just had a call at work from someone selling targeting banners and sponsored (not PPC) links on Lycos. I thought about it for a while, thinking Lycos are one of the bigger players, but then I came to thinking that I haven't actually personally used it for a search in years.
Some web searches (On google, ah sweet irony) suggest that Lycos has just a few percent market share now, behind the likes of Google, Yahoo, AJ etc, so I thought i'd find out:
- Which search engine do you use, primarily?
- Anyone got a decent link to a source of the latest market share info?
It will at least give me some more questions to ask when I get a call back with some more price break downs I have asked for.
Personally, I use Google for 99.9% of things now, mainly because of the google toolbar and the fact that I can get to it easily.
Cheers all,
Tony
Some web searches (On google, ah sweet irony) suggest that Lycos has just a few percent market share now, behind the likes of Google, Yahoo, AJ etc, so I thought i'd find out:
- Which search engine do you use, primarily?
- Anyone got a decent link to a source of the latest market share info?
It will at least give me some more questions to ask when I get a call back with some more price break downs I have asked for.
Personally, I use Google for 99.9% of things now, mainly because of the google toolbar and the fact that I can get to it easily.
Cheers all,
Tony
does anyone ever get the idea that google might filter out searches?
as in if you searched for something nasty like bomb making, say it found you a page on how to make a bomb, but filtered it out for national security reasons.
(i know there is a filter, but im talking about with this off)
since google is american do you not think they might do this?
edited to say, i dont ACTUALLY want to make a bomb, i was just using it as an example
>> Edited by polarbert on Thursday 22 September 13:07
as in if you searched for something nasty like bomb making, say it found you a page on how to make a bomb, but filtered it out for national security reasons.
(i know there is a filter, but im talking about with this off)
since google is american do you not think they might do this?
edited to say, i dont ACTUALLY want to make a bomb, i was just using it as an example
>> Edited by polarbert on Thursday 22 September 13:07
Either Google or www.37.com it searches Google, Yahoo etc.... in all 37 web search engines and gives you combined results.
FourWheelDrift said:
Either Google or www.37.com it searches Google, Yahoo etc.... in all 37 web search engines and gives you combined results.
Actually, that reminds me - If Google down't come up with the goods i use www.eu.ixquick.com/ which is similar to the 37.com above
http://vivisimo.com/
Is the other one I use, it's a cluster search engine in that it groups identical sites or references together on the left hand side in a tree menu.
Is the other one I use, it's a cluster search engine in that it groups identical sites or references together on the left hand side in a tree menu.
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