Web Search Engines

GPS  for the Information Super Highway

Links (Search Engines)

  • WebCrawler
    Father of all Web Search Engines
  • AltaVista
    "Old school" becomes new school
  • DogPile
    Search engines of search engines
  • AOL
    THE web portal as (keyword) search engine
  • Yahoo!
    The first "rock star" search engine
  • Google
    "The Mother of all Search Engines"
  • MSN (Live)
    Resistance is futile
  • Baidu
    A giant is awakened

Link (Background/References)

Worldwide Search Top 10
December 2007
Total World Age 15+, Home and Work Locations*
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0

 

Searches (MM)

Share of Searches

Total Internet

66,221

100.0

Google Sites

41,345

62.4

Yahoo! Sites

8,505

12.8

Baidu.com Inc.

3,428

5.2

Microsoft Sites

1,940

2.9

NHN Corporation

1,572

2.4

eBay

1,428

2.2

Time Warner Network

1,062

1.6

Ask Network

728

1.1

Yandex

566

0.9

Alibaba.com Corporation

531

0.8

*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

©2008 comScore, Inc.