Comments on: Major Shift in Search Engine Market Share Leaves Google at #1 http://www.apogeeresults.com/Blog/index.php/major-shift-in-search-engine-market-share-leaves-google-at-1?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=major-shift-in-search-engine-market-share-leaves-google-at-1 Your professional source for all the latest Search Engine Marketing news and events. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: markus941 http://www.apogeeresults.com/Blog/index.php/major-shift-in-search-engine-market-share-leaves-google-at-1/comment-page-1#comment-93611 markus941 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:51:58 +0000 http://www.apogee-search.com/Blog/?p=496#comment-93611 Looking at stats for all the sites we run, Google sends them 14x more traffic than either MSN or Yahoo - it's not even close. An increase of "time spent on site" for a search engine is not a good thing - it means the searcher takes more time to find what they're looking for. Ask can run monkey commercials, Live can run iWon -type promotions, but no gimmick will save them from the bottom of the barrel unless they do something truly remarkable. Looking at stats for all the sites we run, Google sends them 14x more traffic than either MSN or Yahoo – it’s not even close. An increase of “time spent on site” for a search engine is not a good thing – it means the searcher takes more time to find what they’re looking for.

Ask can run monkey commercials, Live can run iWon -type promotions, but no gimmick will save them from the bottom of the barrel unless they do something truly remarkable.

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