Global Search Market Share in 2007

We know that Google search engine is dominating the Global search market. But, how big is Google's domination of internet search market? Based on the most current and available data from various sources below, a graph was developed to illustrate this domination.

Global Search Engine Market as of January 2007

This graph shows market shares for four major search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live and Ask in forms of areas. Global search market is presented as a big red circle while a smaller white oval shows the US search market.

Will Google eat them all and completely control the future internet search market? Will it survive with this domination or perish due to a blowup? What do you think?

Sources:

1. Nielsen//NetRatings' Burmaster:
256 million people visited a search engine in December 2006 – 81% of the global Internet population.

Google's audience has grown almost 2.5 times the rate of search's – continuing to eat into the share held by its competitors.

2. Enquisite's Zwicky: From January 20 to February 12, 2007, Google's share of the global search engine market dipped to 67.1%, it slipped to 76.1% in the UK, and slid to 76.9% in France. Yahoo had a 14.9%, rise to 8.3% in the UK, and improve to 5.3% in France.

3. US Market:

Sources Month Google Yahoo Microsoft Ask Daily Queries, M

comScore January 47.50% 28.10% 10.80% 5.20% 222,581

NetRatings December 50.80% 23.60% 8.40% 2.10% 190,500

4. US Market vs. Global Market:

Google Users in United States = 30.7%.
Growth in Searches per Searcher, February 2006

Date Feb 2005 Feb 2006 Yearly Growth

Monthly Searches/Searcher 33.2 43.1 30%

Daily Searches/Searcher 1.18 1.54 30%

* Estimated 1.7 searches per searcher per day in January 2007