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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.

I today read an article in regard to trying to cheat Google’s penalizing of paid links. As some of you might not be aware, Google does not like paid link campaigns due to the fact that anyone with money can then manipulate there page rank and listings on the SERP’s by buying links from sites that hold weight with Google.

To find out more go to an article I wrote about paid links back in October.Directories that are trusted by Google are not frowned upon by Google for links to client sites. We are one of the small few.

UFindUs have been awarded a top ten award from Hitwise.com for generating one hell of a lot of traffic to the UFindUs directory for the last quarter of last year. Hitwise are a web traffic statistics company who are very known in the business who track websites that are top of the their industries and it is a great privilege for us to get this award for UFindUs.

Update:

Did you know UFindUs get more traffic than uk.local.yahoo.com WOW, i’m shocked, I knew UFindUS were big but taking on one of the big three takes some doing.maps.google.co.uk was No1 in the top ten, this is not a suprise.

“Yahoo! is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against the $45 billion (£23 billion) hostile bid approach from Microsoft

It is understood that Yahoo! and its team of advisers from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, the US investment banks, have spent the past week evaluating possible tie-ups with media and technology firms that would save it from being swallowed by Microsoft.”