Putting the Boot to Search Satisfaction, Part II

By Paul Kedrosky · August 20, 2007 · ·

So much for the supposed improvement in other search services’ user satisfaction ratings. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, Google gained search traffic share in July against all of its competitors other than Microsoft (which gained a tiny amount), despite The Google allegedly falling behind in search satisfaction.

Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for July 2007,Ranked by Searches (U.S.)                                Searches       YOY    Share ofProvider                           (000)    Growth    Searches1.   Google Search             4,143,752     49.3%       53.3%2.   Yahoo! Search             1,559,745     15.9%       20.1%3.   MSN/Windows Live Search   1,057,064     94.9%       13.6%4.   AOL Search                  407,988     14.9%        5.2%5.   Ask.com Search              143,513     -3.9%        1.8%6.   My Web Search                69,145      N/A         0.9%7.   BellSouth Search             40,374      N/A         0.5%8.   Comcast Search               37,311      N/A         0.5%9.   Dogpile.com Search           25,675      6.9%        0.3%10.  My Way Search                24,534    -80.9%        0.3%

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, August 2007

Related posts:

  1. Yahoo, Google, and the Search Satisfaction Myth
  2. Google’s Double-Cover Weekend
  3. Ego Search 2.0
  4. Microsoft’s Suspicious Search Stats
  5. Google Search Stats, Utah, Microsoft-Stomping and Acquiring Yahoo

Comments

  1. Nelson says:
    August 20, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Does MSN’s 95% YOY growth number include the garbage search traffic autogenerated by the cartoon chicken game and other Microsoft Live Search Club nonsense?

  2. Nathan says:
    August 21, 2007 at 12:48 am

    I’m very surprised not to see http://www.accoona.com in the top ten. Fishy indeed…