68581 1 3 econsultancy_xml <p>Jefferies &amp; Co analyst Youssef Squali said:</p> <blockquote> <p> <em>"We are continuing to see deceleration in growth in Web search. Google's month-over-month 5 percent decline is a little surprising, but all of the major Web search names were down."</em> </p> </blockquote> <p>Search volume dropped to 5.86 billion in February from 6.14 billion in January but this figure hasn't been adjusted to take into account the fact February had 2 days less than January. </p> <p>If February had another 2 days the figures would actually have been higher than January.<br /><br />Google's share among the top 5 search engines actually grew in February from 58.5% to 59.2% showing that any global losses were affecting its main competitors as well.<br /><br />As long as the likes of Yahoo, MSN and Ask are not gaining significant ground Google has very little to worry about.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>Jefferies &amp; Co analyst Youssef Squali said:</Paragraph> <Block> <Paragraph> <Quote>"We are continuing to see deceleration in growth in Web search. Google's month-over-month 5 percent decline is a little surprising, but all of the major Web search names were down."</Quote> </Paragraph> </Block> <Paragraph>Search volume dropped to 5.86 billion in February from 6.14 billion in January but this figure hasn't been adjusted to take into account the fact February had 2 days less than January. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>If February had another 2 days the figures would actually have been higher than January.<LineBreak /><LineBreak />Google's share among the top 5 search engines actually grew in February from 58.5% to 59.2% showing that any global losses were affecting its main competitors as well.<LineBreak /><LineBreak />As long as the likes of Yahoo, MSN and Ask are not gaining significant ground Google has very little to worry about.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2008-03-20T10:03:00+00:00 1 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>February </strong> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080319/tc_nm/google_search_dc"> <strong>data from comScore</strong> </a> <strong> appears to indicate that Google is losing market share with its dominance slipping from 63.1% to 62.8%.</strong> </p> <p>The sensationalist Reuters headline, published on Yahoo news, does Google no favours.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>February </Emphasis> <Link URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080319/tc_nm/google_search_dc" Window="Self"> <Emphasis>data from comScore</Emphasis> </Link> <Emphasis> appears to indicate that Google is losing market share with its dominance slipping from 63.1% to 62.8%.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The sensationalist Reuters headline, published on Yahoo news, does Google no favours.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 2297 365304 Is Google's market share really dropping? false 2008-03-20T10:35:00+00:00 is-google-s-market-share-really-dropping 2009-04-28T23:07:24+01:00 2009-04-28T23:07:24+01:00 926