14 DAY TRIAL // Google is the best search engine in our times but more and more companies are looking to challenge the search giant for the leader position. Although Google tries to update the search engine periodically to assure that it's still number one, powerful internet companies already announced that they are currently developing new search technologies meant to compete with Google. As you may know, Yahoo is one of the most known Google rivals, as well as Microsoft with its Live solutions and Ask. Recently, Wikipedia's founder also announced that the company wants to release an innovative search engine that will be even more powerful than Google.
It's obvious that the competition for the most powerful search engine attracts more companies, but it seems like Google is still number one as a comScore research says. comScore is an organization that analyzes traffic and other stats to generate ranking for many domains, including search engine. According to the company, Google was the most used search engine in December, 2006 while Yahoo was placed on the second position.
"comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In December 2006, Google Sites captured 47.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.4 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites grew 0.3 share points, maintaining its second place ranking with 28.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.5 percent), Ask Network (5.4 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.9 percent)," comScore said.
"Americans conducted 6.7 billion searches online in December, up 1 percent versus November. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 30-percent increase since the same month a year ago. Google Sites led the pack with 3.2 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (713 million), Ask Network (363 million), and Time Warner Network (335 million)," the same source mentioned.