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Google Still Leads Search Ranking, By A Mile

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Nielsen NetRatings has announced its October search engine traffic results. If any of Google’s competitors thought they might gain on the search giant, they can dream on.

Fifty percent of all searchs done in the US last month went to Google. That is over three billion search requests. The figure is a 23% growth over last year. Yahoo! was second with just under 24% of the market, 1.456 billion search queries.

The balance of the field migh as well have stayed home. MSN Search had less than 9% of the market, followed by AOL at just over 6% and Ask.com at under 3%.

AOL’s share of the search market grew just 1.9% year-over-year. MSN was down 8%

The message from the statistics was simple.

No one is catching Google.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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