Google search took up most of U.S. market
This Internet news is provided from the West Technology Limited
August 14, according to foreign media reports, the date published recently by research company Hitwise showed that Google continued to hold American internet search market with a new high record in July, while Microsoft’s MSN search engine has become the biggest losers in the past three and a half years.
Hitwise said the company Tuesday, July 26 at the end of four weeks, in the United States all the online search question, Google’s share of 70.77 percent. This is the tenth consecutive Google search on record share of a new high. Google’s market share a year earlier to 64.35 percent, in January last year, the share of 63.06 percent.
Instead, the past nine months, Microsoft’s MSN search engine has suffered the worst blow. In July, MSN network of the U.S. search market share of only 5.36 percent, lower than July of last year’s 8.79 percent, up 10.35 percent last January’s market share has decreased by almost half.
The researchers pointed out that the U.S. search market share decline may be so enthusiastic about Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo’s search technology to be a major cause.
Since February of this year, MSN Search share has continued to decline. Microsoft in February before and after the proposed 44.6 billion U.S. dollars offer for the acquisition of Yahoo. The world’s largest software maker finally abandoned the original plan.
Yahoo search engine MSN slightly better than, but still showed signs of sharp decline. Yahoo search engine in July of the market share of 18.65 percent and 22.13 percent a year earlier. Yahoo in January last year of the U.S. search market share of 21.40 percent.
Ask.com is in addition to Google search, the only rising share of other types of search engines. Ask the company’s market share in July to 3.53 percent, the same period last year was 3.21 percent.
Hitwise said, other 47 search engines share 1.69 percent of the market together.
