Below you see listed data from comScore in ranking the search engines by their October 2005 unique visitors:
Google - 89.8 million
Yahoo! Search - 68 million
MSN Search - 49.7 million
Ask Jeeves - 43.7 million
AOL Search - 36.1 million
Also an interesting fact is that the major search players have been amping up efforts to make their local search better than the competition. Much of the rise in search usage has been reflected in people looking for information based on queries that included ZIP codes, addresses, or phone numbers.
Sites belonging to Google, Yahoo, and MSN were the top three in local search. Time Warner, which includes AOL, and Ask Jeeves followed. When looking at Yellow Pages searches and the additional business-related filtering users can employ, Yahoo topped that list, followed by Verizon and Google.
Google - 89.8 million
Yahoo! Search - 68 million
MSN Search - 49.7 million
Ask Jeeves - 43.7 million
AOL Search - 36.1 million
Also an interesting fact is that the major search players have been amping up efforts to make their local search better than the competition. Much of the rise in search usage has been reflected in people looking for information based on queries that included ZIP codes, addresses, or phone numbers.
Sites belonging to Google, Yahoo, and MSN were the top three in local search. Time Warner, which includes AOL, and Ask Jeeves followed. When looking at Yellow Pages searches and the additional business-related filtering users can employ, Yahoo topped that list, followed by Verizon and Google.
