Ask.com Quickest Gainer in Market Share From Q4 '04 to '05; Google Follows, Yahoo Loses Share

Mar 29, 2006 - 8:05 am 0 by
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John Battelle reports on comScore report that shows Ask.com gaining in market share from Q4 '04 to '05 by 32.8% and Google growing over the same time span by 24.7%. Yahoo dropped in market share by 0.3% and MSN dropped by 2.7%. Still the overall leaders in market share as of Q4 2005 are; Google with 39.8%, Yahoo with 29.3%m MSN with 14.3% and Ask.com with 6.6% of search market share.

With Ask.com's TV recent TV Blitz it will be interesting to see the impact it has in Q1 of 2006.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch Forums.

 

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