Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Search Engine Stats

The latest stats are in by ComScore about which search engine is the most used. Over 90% of all Internet users are using search engines. Usage has jumped from 31% (June 2005) to 41% (Sept 2005) for daily searching. Over 59 million users per day were reported in Sept 2005.

Top search engines:

1. Google - 89.9 million unique visitors
2. Yahoo! - 68 million unique visitors
3. MSN - 49.7 million unique visitors
4. Ask Jeeves - 43.7 million unique visitors
5. AOL Search - 36.1 million unqiue visitors

As you can see, Google is the most widely used search engine and the gap between Google and Yahoo is growing. What this means to online business owners is that it is vital to get listed in the top 5 search engines in order to get the most traffic. If you focus on getting high rankings in Google, your traffic will exponentially grow.

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