14 DAY TRIAL // Google managed to attract almost the majority of the Internet searches after 49.7 percent of the US residents used the Mountain View company as their favorite search engine. According to comScore, Google won the first place in the detriment of Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com. The search giant Google is the only technology that managed to boost its number of visitors, having a minor increase from 48.3 percent in March 2007 to 49.7 percent in April 2007. Yahoo decreased its numbers with 0.7 points from 27.5 percent in March to 26.8 percent in April. Microsoft was hardly placed on the third position with 10.3 percent of the searches conducted in April compared to 10.9 percent recorded in March.
"Americans conducted 7.3 billion searches online in April, virtually unchanged versus March and up 11 percent versus April 2006. Google Sites led the pack with 3.6 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (2.0 billion), Microsoft Sites (757 million), Ask Network (376 million), and Time Warner Network (364 million)," comScore detailed the research.
Although all of us already knew that Google is the most powerful search engine on the Internet, these statistics reveal that the Mountain View company will remain the leader for a long time. The difference between the first two companies is quite huge because Google managed to record almost twice of the Yahoo searches, an obvious sign that the Mountain View company currently has no rival to compete with its technologies.
However, a lot of companies announced their plans to develop similar solutions able to challenge Google and compete with its products. The best example is represented by Wikipedia because its founder announced some time ago that 2007 will bring an innovative search technology that will represent a powerful alternative for the famous Google, the king of the Internet search.