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Chris K · 03-02-2004, 04:12 AM

Read this in a newsletter I recieve from a company who specialise in gateway pages following poor performance of their product after the recent Google shake ups:

'First of all, the 'good' news is that as predicted Yahoo has, as of 2 weeks ago, stopped being driven by Google. It is now powered by a combination of its own spidered results and inktomi data. As inktomi has traditionally been a strength for us this is good news in the long term for positions and traffic. The overall implications on traffic are that Google's share of search engine traffic has dropped from around 70% to about 40%, with Yahoo accounting for 30%, MSN 20% and all the rest 10% (Lycos, HotBot, AlltheWeb etc).'

Is this true? (I am in the UK, and struggle to believe that Google is now down to 40% of searches?)

Thanks

Chris

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Chris K Inactive Join Date: 11-12-03 Location: London, UK Posts: 36 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Google now only 40% of searches?! Read this in a newsletter I recieve from a company who specialise in gateway pages following poor performance of their product after the recent Google shake ups: 'First of all, the 'good' news is that as predicted Yahoo has, as of 2 weeks ago, stopped being driven by Google. It is now powered by a combination of its own spidered results and inktomi data. As inktomi has traditionally been a strength for us this is good news in the long term for positions and traffic. The overall implications on traffic are that Google's share of search engine traffic has dropped from around 70% to about 40%, with Yahoo accounting for 30%, MSN 20% and all the rest 10% (Lycos, HotBot, AlltheWeb etc).' Is this true? (I am in the UK, and struggle to believe that Google is now down to 40% of searches?) Thanks Chris