The Top Ten Search Engines Based On Visits

According the Hitwise, the leading gatherer of internet usage statistics, the top ten search engines for UK users consist of only the really big names, suggesting that very few UK searchers will go further than Google or Yahoo, which is not really much of a surprise.

The following report shows websites for the industry 'Computers and Internet - Search Engines', ranked by Visits for the week ending 30/05/2009 – according to Hitwise.

1. Google UK
2. Google
3. Google UK Image Search
4. Yahoo! Search - UK & Ireland
5. Windows Live Search
6. Ask.com UK
7. MSN UK Search
8. Google Image Search
9. Ask.com
10. MSN Search

Google is the leader by a long, long way, with its UK search engine (google.co.uk) capturing well over 64% of search engine queries, with Yahoo coming fourth with a not so close 3% of search engine queries. Google also takes the second and third position with its international search and image search facility, with MSN and Ask also making up some of the places.

Google’s domination is clearly shown on the above list, with its three search facilities managing to capture an amazing 83% of UK search engine queries.

With the launch of the new Microsoft engine Bing, which replaces MSN and Live Search, they are going to have to really go a long way to catch up for Google, which even for the most optimistic person would be somewhat of a challenge. But, Bing does have a chance to work its way into the top three, of that there is no doubt, but it will really have to capture the hearts of the UK internet user to climb into the top two positions, but only time will tell.

By: Clear Web Services

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