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Rank Search Engine Volume

By: Lee Johnson - SEO Manager - CustomerStreet
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Feb
21

This list features the top 4 leading search engines based on UK Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending January 26, 2008.

Rank Search Engine Volume

1. google.co.uk 74.11%

2. google.com 14.11%

3. uk.ask.com 3.05%

4. uk.search.yahoo.com 2.18%

Source - Hitwise - January, 2008 - based on volume of searches.

I was very surprised by the fact that ASK is growing faster in the UK than Yahoo. To be fair to Yahoo though, ASK have recently had a marketing campaign running on TV so I would imagine that has helped them leap frog over Yahoo.

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On Fri 7 Mar Tim Smith wrote :

The new advertising campaign for ask has been quite eye catching, seems to be aimed directly at google users too, good tactics, obviously its paying off!

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