Google’s January share of U.S. search fell to 71.49% from 72.25% in December for a 1% share drop.
Yahoo! search’s January share of U.S. search fell to 14.57% from 14.83% in December for a 1% share drop.
Microsoft’s Bing saw its January share of U.S. search rise to 8.92% from 9.37%, which is 5% on its change in market share.
IAC/InterActiveCorp. (NASDAQ: IACI) is still there with its distant #4 share of search with its Ask, the former AskJeeves… with a small gain to boot. It took back 4% from December as the January figure rose to 2.64% from 2.54% of US search.
The remaining 65 search engines commanded a whopping 1.93% share of search.
Google is still the top dog and it is not even a fair dog fight yet. Even Michael Vick couldn’t influence this dog fight. Our guess is that as long as Google maintains 70% then it is more than satisfied.
JON C. OGG
FEBRUARY 10, 2010