Comments on: June Search Market Share Update: MSN still up without ClubLive

By: Kit Homes

Kit Homes — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:20:00 +0000

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

By: sheds

sheds — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:17:18 +0000

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

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ArticleSnatch Blog — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:38:45 +0000

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By: Michael Briggs

Michael Briggs — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:10:21 +0000

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

By: Thomas Claburn

Thomas Claburn — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:11:39 +0000

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.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:39 +0000

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

By: Cliff Parker

Cliff Parker — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:28 +0000

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.