Search Engine Market Share
The Major Search Engines & Directories Market Share
Data source: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com
Date: July 2005
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research, released the top 10 search engine share rankings for July 2005. Google Search continued its lead with 46 percent of all searches, followed by Yahoo! Search at 23 percent, and MSN Search at 13 percent (see Table 1). AOL Search garnered five percent of searches, and My Way Search saw two percent.
Top 10 Search Engines Ranked by Search Share: June-July 2005
| Search Destinations | Active Reach (%) |
| 46.2 | |
| Yahoo! Search* | 22.5 |
| MSN Search* | 12.6 |
| AOL Search | 5.4 |
| My Way | 5.4 |
| Ask Jeeves | 1.6 |
The average Web searcher conducted nearly 38 searches during July
2005, a four percent increase from the prior month (see Table 2). Google
Search and Yahoo! Search saw heavy usage with 27 and 20 searches per
person, respectively, followed by Netscape Search and Dogpile.com Search,
which
averaged nearly 20 and 15 searches per person, respectively. MSN Search
rounded out the top five rankings with 14 searches per person.