14 DAY TRIAL // It's been a while since Google remained the best search engine on the Internet without any powerful rival to compete with it. Things are going to be changed soon because the folks from the Redmond rival Microsoft managed to make MSN/Live Search very competitive for the product owned by the Mountain View company. According to some recent statistics published by Compete, Live Search grew up a lot but it's still struggling to catch Google, the all-time leader of the online searching technologies.
According to the research, Live Search increased the number of queries with 37 percent from May and with 48 percent from last year. However, it struggled to reach a 13.2 percent market share while the search giant Google has no less than 62.7 percent in June 2007.
"A good portion of the additional Live searches are coming from the Live Search Club, where you can apparently play games for points which you can redeem for fine Microsoft products. All of the games involve using Live's search engine - to get the points, you have to search with Live. It looks like Chicktionary is leading the charge," Steve Willis from Compete wrote today.
It's well known the fact that Google is the best search engine on the Internet and this is especially proved by the huge number of users that are continuously accessing the technology. Some time ago, numerous companies announced their plans to develop powerful search technologies able to compete with Google but, until now, they were only plans.
Take the example of the Wikipedia founder. He announced his plans to build a similar technology with the one owned by the Mountain View company that would be able to steal some users attracted by Google. However, there is no solution to compete with Google and until there is one, we should wait and recognize the search giant's supremacy.