The massive growth in internet availability, users of internet has surpassed several millions of visitors as on December, 2009. Almost all the smart marketers of the world are looking for more and more online revenue by using websites. Nowadays, we can hear layman talking about search engine optimization, PPC, affiliate marketing, social networking which was once considered as jargons.
The basis for online marketing is to find out exactly how visitors use the search engines to get the desired data from the internet. First step would be to fine tune a websites content to meet the requirement of visitors to get to the top in SERP pages. After this the question would “which search engine majority of internet users prefer? For this we need to know the most used search engines.
Only real time statistics can prove the credibility of the search engines. Among the list of top ten search engines guess which is on top? According to statistics as on December, 2009, undoubtedly google is on top of the listing with more than 70% percentage of internet users using it to find what they want on the World Wide Web. In the row, next comes yahoo with 16% of visitors. Microsoft with so much of hype on its latest search engine “Bing” had attracted only around 10% of visitors for the whole of 2009.
In the fourth place, out of top ten search engines is Ask.com with 4% percentage of internet users. All other search engines like AOL, Altavista, Alltheweb, have only a negligible amount of visitors. With this rough idea about the top ten search engines any online marketer should cook their website to fit the criteria of Google, and then try to satisfy other search engines.
It’s a fact that quality content can catch the eyes of all the search engines, but this statistics can help in fine tuning the website for individual search engines.
Just for a glance following are the top ten search engines as on December 2009.
- Google.com
- Yahoo.com
- Bing.com
- Ask.com
- AOL.com
- AltaVista.com
- AlltheWeb.com
- Lycos.com
- Excite.com
- HotBot.com
