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.
Customer
Experience Rankings |
1 |
Google |
2 |
Yahoo! |
3 |
MSN |
4 |
Ask
Jeeves |
5 |
Lycos |
Source: Keynote
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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 |
$113.6
mn The Chinese search engine market in value term in 2004 and
expected to grow at an annual rate of 60%-70% till 2006 |
30%
The percentage of the US online advertising spent on search,
according to JupiterResearch |
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Growth
in Paid Search vs Non-Search online Advertising Spending, 2004 |
|
Online
Ad |
Growth |
|
Spending
($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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