Q and A: What are the top 100 most used search engines?

Dear Kalena...

Firstly, thank you for the free newsletter. I am looking forward to reading it. I'm in my 62nd year of life, but have only had access to the Internet since mid April this year, but it's an absolutely amazing, thrilling, life enriching experience!

Could you please help me with some info? As there are an incredible amount (+/- 4,500?) of search engines to utilize on the net, would it maybe be possible to find out which are the 100 best, most used, search engines on the planet? I would be terribly grateful were this info to be available.

Dave

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Dave

In terms of total search market share, latest figures from Nielsen/NetRatings show that 95 percent is still dominated by the top 5 search engines. These are:

• Google
• Yahoo!
• MSN / LiveSearch
• AOL
• Ask
  

Apart from the major search engines, you might want to look at:

- popular minor search engines

- popular pay per click search engines

- popular meta search engines

- worldwide search engines

- sites that list search engines

Happy surfing!


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