Top 4 Search Engines of 2008
Before you begin an SEO project, make sure you know the statistics! As you can see from the 2008 top search engine list, optimizing for anything other than Google first is not really sensible. My recommendation is to always optimize for Google first, because that optimization alone will most likely increase your rankings on other search engines anyway.
This list features the top 4 leading search engines based on US Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending December 27, 2008.
| Rank | Search Engine | Volume |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | www.google.com | 72.07% |
| 2. | search.yahoo.com | 17.79% |
| 3. | search.msn.com | 4.10% |
| 4. | www.ask.com | 3.15% |
Source – Hitwise – December, 2008 – based on volume of searches.
Leave a Reply