Google going down: People are turning away from Google Search

bartosimpsonio · Feb 18, 2015

For those of you who never saw a WWW without Google controlling it, maybe this is your chance. It used to be a lot more fun

Google's search share has fallen below 75% for the first time since 2008, according to statistics from StatCounter.
The US market drop is a stark reflection of Yahoo's small but notable resurgence, as well as Bing's bold attempts to stay in the game. Together, the search engines are chipping away at Google's 10-year dominance and clawing back percentages.
Jan. 2015 saw Yahoo take back search share for two consecutive months: it has risen from 10.4% in December to 10.9% in the new year. It marks a significant growth. In November, Yahoo's stake stood at just 8.6%. It's good news for CEO Marissa Mayer, who made Yahoo's search functionality one of the main areas to improve. It seems this part of her plan is working.
Bing's growth is less decisive, but worth mentioning. From Dec. 2014 to January this year, its share has dropped by 0.1%, but the company has seen its search share rise from 12.1% to 12.4% overall.

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-share-below-75-2015-2

BHW-News · Feb 18, 2015

Interesting. I won't be leaving the big G anytime soon though.
I remember using Ask Jeeves in school, it blew my mind. I couldn't see how they wouldn't be top dog.

vedavyas · Feb 18, 2015

Firefox shifted to Yahoo search as default,that may be major reason for Yahoo's Raise..

bartosimpsonio · Feb 18, 2015

vedavyas said:
Firefox shifted to Yahoo search as default,that may be major reason for Yahoo's Raise..

That's exactly right.

And if Apple does the same in the coming months, you'll see Bing and Yahoo become relevant again.

We need competition in search - urgent. The WWW is not supposed to be curated by one corporation - we're all much better off with several players, not just one.

RuthSam · Feb 18, 2015

Would be great with alternatives to big G

shezboy · Feb 18, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
That's exactly right.

And if Apple does the same in the coming months, you'll see Bing and Yahoo become relevant again.

We need competition in search - urgent. The WWW is not supposed to be curated by one corporation - we're all much better off with several players, not just one.

Totally agree. Google's dominance is only good for Google and nothing else. I feel that their time on top is now set for a change and while they remain the dominant search engine for some time I see others continuing to make ground on them and this is the internet, it doesn't matter how big you are, the internet is constantly changing.

Shez

Chicilikit · Feb 18, 2015

That would be good news for me, for some reason most of my sites ranks much better in yahoo and bing, even I dont even try to rank them there.

laowai · Feb 18, 2015

From the same StatCounter graph you can see that Yahoo share excluding FireFox users has been actually declined and as the FireFox usage trend is going rapidly down I doubt that Yahoo share increase would be sustainable trend. I would love to see Google share going down, but its very unlikely to happen anytime soon.

dadangle · Feb 18, 2015

laowai said:
From the same StatCounter graph you can see that Yahoo share excluding FireFox users has been actually declined and as the FireFox usage trend is going rapidly down I doubt that Yahoo share increase would be sustainable trend. I would love to see Google share going down, but its very unlikely to happen anytime soon.

I agree with you here. Don't get me wrong, I wish the Goog would crash and burn just as much as the next dude around here. But being the juggernaut that it is, I don't see it happening soon. Google has it's fingers in too many dishes for Yahoo to ever come close to it.

bartosimpsonio · Feb 18, 2015

dadangle said:
Google has it's fingers in too many dishes for Yahoo to ever come close to it.

That's what everyone used to say about Yahoo and then Altavista came along.

That's what everyone used to say about Altavista, then Google came along....

Things change!

dadangle · Feb 18, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
That's what everyone used to say about Yahoo and then Altavista came along.

That's what everyone used to say about Altavista, then Google came along....

Things change!

Understood man. I'm just saying that Yahoo isn't developing anywhere near the amount of different things that the goog is. Search engines aside, google is still a force to be reckoned with. I understand that evolution is inevitable, but someone has to become as strong as google before they're able to get stronger.

antonjones · Feb 18, 2015

They should change their algorithms back to how used it be. Obviously putting big brands on page one and trying to force every other fucker to PPC isn't working.

T0NYS · Feb 18, 2015

In my opinion google's usage can not fall below 70% ,I mean I hate google but we all know that google is google , people will use yahoo search to search for google and once they land on google's search page they will type their keywords ,
that's how every normal human being acts like , yesterday I saw a friend search for google on another shitty search engine that was installed on its PC through some adware shit and he didn't know how to change the default search engine , it's not us guys but that's how other people think like , I mean I hope the traffic will split even more between major traffic sources because it's good for everyone to benefit from but it will be very very hard ,
I really do cross my fingers when it comes to mozilla , let's see if it will work , if it wont there is nothing we can do

prab1996 · Feb 18, 2015

Lol , what a news.

Google used to control 77% searches and it's only down by 3%.

it's only down by 3% and i don't think if it's a major news.

dys872 · Feb 18, 2015

I hate monopoly and love competition but that is not what most like. Anyway I hope Google gets down to 10%

cataclysm1987 · Feb 18, 2015

Good.

Competition is a good thing. The more competition Google has, the less vile and insane they can afford to act.

howard_hughes · Feb 18, 2015

While it seems like a good news, Divided traffic will ultimately result in making SEO more and more expensive.

Capo Dei Capi · Feb 18, 2015

Isn't the seo for all search engines pretty much the same?

Lots of content
Social Signals
PBN
Backlinks
Fast site loading time.

It makes more sense to focus on more quality seo for what it takes to rank on the most difficult search engine, then you will be ranking on the other ones as well.

Zwielicht · Feb 18, 2015

STKMKTFTGRU said:
Isn't the seo for all search engines pretty much the same?

Lots of content
Social Signals
PBN
Backlinks
Fast site loading time.

It makes more sense to focus on more quality seo for what it takes to rank on the most difficult search engine, then you will be ranking on the other ones as well.

That's how I see it (except with more factors such as keyword targeting and density). My websites rank pretty well for all of my targeted keywords on Yahoo and Bing, so even in the event that Google, Yahoo, and Bing became equals in the search market (with all 3 of them controlling 33.3% of all searches), my websites wouldn't be impacted by that change much.

proxygo · Feb 18, 2015

i remember back in 97 when i first came online yahoo all the way.
since yahoo closed alot of its products over the years, i shifted to google
in the mid 2000, times change

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