There’s been a lot of discussion out there about the spike seen from Live this month. As I said in the original post, this only matters if Microsoft can turn this traffic into actual search users. I was curious to see what the numbers would look like if I eliminated the searches originating from the Live Search Club, and this is what I got for the market share:

And the market share trends:

As you can see, Live still had a strong month and still (barely) has positive year-over-year growth.

If you haven’t already seen it, check out the full June Search Share post.


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  1. Cliff Parker

    Thank you for this great extra analysis is great.

    The market share change excluding the Live Club searches looks about normal for this time of year. Google gets more use from academics than the other search engines do, and tends to lose share when when the school year ends.

    According to ComScore Google lost share from May to June in 2004 and 2005, but not in 2006 (when the share loss was pushed back a month from June to July). Google then tends to gain share back when students return in September.

    It will be interesting to see whether this pattern repeats this year, or whether Live (excluding Club) will take share on a sustained basis.

    If Compete has any ability to shed light on whether this search shift is seasonal or not, that would be very interesting. Thanks again for the responsiveness.

  2. Matt Cutts

    Steve, out of curiosity, could you give absolute traffic estimates instead of percentages?

  3. Thomas Claburn

    Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
    http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092

    Some portion of the Live Search gains appear to be from people running bots.

  4. Michael Briggs

    Do you have a sample set of data for UK usage of the search engines?

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  6. sheds

    Yes, MSN has to run a long race to capture good market..

  7. Kit Homes

    Do you have any data for UK usage of the search engines?

  8. مركز تحميل

    thankx


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