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DQI Bureau
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According to the Keynote Customer Experience Rankings, the Search Engine

Industry are based on research with 2,000 consumers as they interacted with

leading search engines, Yahoo! and MSN search engines are closing the gap with

Google by improving the search experience for consumers . Even though 75% of

users say they have one primary search engine, when search expectations are not

met, up to 50% of users will turn to another search engine as an alternative.

Additionally, up to 20% of users regularly use different search engines for

different types of searches.

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Customer

Experience Rankings
1  Google
2  Yahoo!
3  MSN
4  Ask

Jeeves
5  Lycos

Source: Keynote

Fact

File
$4

bn The amount advertisers spent in 2004 on search engine marketing,

according to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
$5.5

bn The estimated revenue of search advertising and related services

in 2009, according to JupiterResearch
$113.6

mn The Chinese search engine market in value term in 2004 and

expected to grow at an annual rate of 60%-70% till 2006
30%

The percentage of the US online advertising spent on search,

according to JupiterResearch
Growth

in Paid Search vs Non-Search online Advertising Spending, 2004
  Online

Ad
Growth
  Spending

($bn)
%
Search

spending
3.93 55
Non-search

spending
5.43 15
Total 9.36 29

Source:

eMarketer, October 2004, Internet

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