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SEO Strategies
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Nielsen/NetRatings has provided January's search engine metrics. There is significant growth in volume of searches for Google and to a lesser extent for Yahoo!. Order has not changed in the top five. Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for January 2007, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
| Provider | Searches (000)
| YOY Growth
| Share of Searches | | Google Search | 3,862,374 | 40.6% | 53.7% | | Yahoo! Search | 1,629,995 | 28.8% | 22.7% | | MSN/Windows Live Search | 642,694 | 2.5% | 8.9% | | AOL Search | 388,966 | 5.6% | 5.4% | | Ask.com Search | 132,800 | 1.2% | 1.8% | | My Web Search | 65,819 | N/A | 0.9% | | Dogpile.com Search | 41,991 | 34.4% | 0.6% | | EarthLink Search | 36,604 | 34.1% | 0.5% | | Comcast Search | 32,001 | N/A | 0.4% | | BellSouth Search | 30,824 | N/A | 0.4% |
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, February 2007
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