The Important Search Engines

Which search engines are important?

Well thats generally an easy one to answer, Google is the No1 search engine in the world with Yahoo second and MSN in third place, the relevant percentages are listed below

Google 42.7%
Yahoo 28%
Msn 13.2%
Aol 7.6%
Ask 5.9%
Others 2.6%

Source comscore March 2006

As you can see a large percentage of the market is taken up by the big 3 and so trying to improve you search engine optimization for the big 3 will bring in more surfers and as Google has the largest share then it pays to work on your Google rankings

The trend from March 2005 to March 2006 has been that Google has increased its share of the search market by taking market share from all the other search engine with the exception of Ask which has had a small growth