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Google is still the Big Mama of search according to the data gathered for search in 2005. Some results below:

Search remains a major source of visits to retail websites during the holiday season, with search engines and directories contributing 17.9 percent of all visits to the Shopping & Classifieds category. Google led in search engine referrals, having provided 10.8 percent of all visits to online retailers. Yahoo Search and MSN Search accounted for 4.1 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively. Consumers continue to manually search and compare across several online retailers. Search engines and comparison shopping sites should consider this manual search behavior as proof of demand for better shopping and comparison search. (Source: MarketingVOX)

The top three search engines - Google, Yahoo Search and MSN Search - accounted for 93.5 percent of U.S. Internet searches across major engines in July 2005. Amidst that triumvirate’s consolidation of search power still lies Google, which claimed 59.2 percent of searches across all major engines in the same month, a 14 percent increase in share versus a year-ago. Yahoo! Search and MSN search respectively captured 28.8 percent and 5.5 percent share of searches in July 2005. So, despite MSN’s vow to own search, and major advancements by Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves, Google is still the dominant consumer search engine by far. (Source: Hitwise)

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