Interesting frequency graph of the four major search engines.
It shows a change of leadership in the past year.
It's good for a laugh, at least. But it may be related to Yahoo's "buy" strategy versus Google's "build" strategy.
A key point here is that the search engine battle peaks in 2004 (for the sum of the four curves). This is typical of the frequency graphs in that they are often a leading indicator of future direction, sometimes by one to two years. 2006 may be a shake-out year.
As someone pointed out to me, even my own material mentions the growing inaccuracy of total Dejanews frequency counts since 2004, so it's probably not a good predictor of the overall search engine market.
But the leadership changeover, based on relative counts of Google versus Yahoo, is probably an indicator of a fundamental change.
( Dec 15 2005, 08:28:39 PM EST ) Permalink
