The Search Engine Market Breakdown: Google, Bing, and Yahoo

   Google has had a stranglehold on the search engine market pretty much since the beginning of its existence. Since then this has only become more and more true. The thing that has changed has been the importance of Search Engines.

   Search Engines play a huge role in the entire Internet. It simply helps everyone find what they are looking for fast.  Speed has become more important as the world has adapted to having their information when they want it, due to smart phones and other mobile devices. So therefore, people have used the search engines to speed up their online ordeals.
According to Danny Sullivan on SearchEngineWatch.com, Google got 91 million searches per day in 2006. Although it’s a little bit later on now, I believe that this number has only increased. This is an astonishing amount of searches per day.
   The next search engine on the list is Yahoo and according to Danny they had 60 million searches per day. This is a huge amount of searches per day, but Google has 31 million more! Again, these are statistics from 2006.
The third search engine on the list was MSN with 28 million searches per day. But I’m sure this has changed to Bing by now. Bing has been the closest competitor with Yahoo and Google. It may have even taken the second spot from Yahoo.
   AOL and Ask ended the list with about 15 million searches per day each. These two I bet are still at the tail end of the list. Ask has kind of shifted its focus onto its Question and Answer project. AOL has always been more of an e-mail service rather than a search engine to me.
      My Predictions for the Future
   I bet Google will not lose its number one spot within the next 5 years. The only thing that would change that is a new discovery that’s better than Search Engines or some dramatic change in Google for the worse.
Yahoo seems to be losing its power and may be passed by Bing soon, if they haven’t been passed already. Yahoo has other things going for it, but I think they gave up after being second best to Google for so long.
Bing will probably be the only one truly competing with Google for the top spot. Although, I bet it will take a while for them to make it that level, if they make new software, they could have a chance.
    No one truly knows what the future will hold for search engines, but for now I think Google can rest easy knowing it will be the top spot. If they keep updating their algorithm to make it better and add new features every so often, I don’t see any reason why they would have a problem keeping their control over the Search Engine. They definitely seem to be cashing in on their money making machine.