Dusted Design Partners Limited

13.04.07

Jamie

Search and browser trends

In order to develop useful web applications it’s a good idea to analyse some stats to see what users are doing. If you love data…Have a read of these Hitwise stats :

• Google (co.uk and com) powered 77% of UK internet searches in the four weeks leading up to February 10, 2007
• Yahoo Search (uk.search.yahoo.com and search.yahoo.com) powered 8%
• Ask.com (uk.ask.com and www.ask.com) 5%
• MSN Search (search.msn.co.uk and msn.search.com) 5%

According to w3schools, in Feb 07 the 3 leading browsers are IE6 (39.8%), FF (31.2%) and IE7 (16.4%).Nielsen//NetRatings state that Google now has almost 3 times the audience of nearest rival, Yahoo Search.To learn more, check out search engine watch.

Business, Technology, Web
ask.com, firefox, google, hitwise, internet explorer, msn, search, w3schools, yahoo

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