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Last week, Hitwise announced the latest figures of March’s U.S. search engine searches based on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Google achieved an all-time high, while the other G.Y.M. members (Yahoo and Microsoft) sunk to all-time lows. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

March 2008

February 2008

March 2007

Google

67.25%

66.44%

64.13%

Yahoo

20.29%

20.59%

21.26%

MSN [...]

As reported in a Wall Street Journal article yesterday, Ask.com has undergone some “restructuring” (a.k.a. layoffs) of its workforce. Forty people have been laid off, which actually accounts for a whopping 8% of the total staff over at Ask.
Now I understand the need for the occasional downsizing to stay ahead of the pack (or in [...]

Nielsen Online’s December search share numbers have been sending small ripples through the search marketing world. According to Nielsen, Microsoft’s Live Search was the only of the “big three” search engines to increase its market share in December, from 12% to 13.8% for queries performed in the United States.
On the other hand, Yahoo and Google [...]

Earlier this week, Hitwise released the latest figures of October’s search engine searches, based on a sample of ten million Internet users in the United States. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

October 2007

October 2006

Google

64.5%

60.9%

Yahoo

21.6%

22.3%

MSN / Live Search

7.4%

10.7%

Ask

4.8%

4.3%

The remaining 1.7% of searches is shared among 49 other search engines in [...]