comScore's Media Medrix service has released new figures on search engine usage. Google is still dominating the search engine market, with record traffic for this quarter.
Infomation Week carries the story, reporting that, "Google ended the quarter with 37 percent of search queries, the highest percentage since ComScore Networks started tracking search engines in December 2003. "
The new 2005 figures (2nd quarter 2004 inc. for reference):
1. Google 37% (35.3 %)
2. Yahoo! 30.4% (28.2 %)
3. MSN 15.6% (14.5%)
4. AOL 9.2% (12.9%)
5. Ask Jeeves 6.1% (3.1%)
"At this point, all three — Google, Yahoo and MSN — are growing,” comScore spokesman Graham Mudd said. “What’s really changing is that they’re growing at the expense of AOL and small search engines that fall below the top five."
"Overall, the top five vendors accounted for 98.3 percent of all search queries, compared with 94 percent in the same period last year. "
