Google Dominates Search Engine Rankings
January 14th, 2010Posted by: J.W. Crump Posted in Blogs
In more “no one’s shocked” news, the Nielson Company released reports yesterday stating that Google was on the top of the search engine rankings for December 2009, as it has been for many a month. What’s interesting about this most recent release is that Google saw an increase in its share nearly equal to the drop experienced by main rivals Yahoo! and Bing.
In November 2009, Google had 65.4% of the share, meaning that the company has gained almost two whole percentage points of the overall search market. Yahoo! and Microsoft are going to have use their new deal on the offensive if they don’t want to continue losing the market. I personally love the notion to name the combined search engine “Bing-hoo!”.
In other news, our parent company’s blog reported yesterday about the text campaign for Haiti relief. According to the official American Red Cross Twitter account, texters have donated over $3 million in aid. That’s an amazing combination of compassion and technology! As they said, keep it up!
January 15th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Hi,
Not surprised by the results. Tried to give Bing a go but reverted to Google after a short while (just got better results via Google).
Wonder why they haven’t included human search (i.e. Twitter) in findings. How many people now use Twitter for search over traditional algorithmic search.
I think that in a few years time there will only be two real players in search overall: Google and Twitter. What do you think?