December 11, 2006

Yahoo’s web search share experienced a big drop in November, after it had gained a few points in October.

Yahoo’s search market share went down 3.6 points to under 21 percent.

Yahoo's absolute decline was even worse when you take into account that total web search queries were down from October to November.

Meanwhile, Google’s web search recovered from a slight two month slide and climbed 3.5 points to an all time high of 66 percent of total market share.

Ask.com's share remained elevated above 2005's average levels indicating that perhaps Ask.com has actually moved the market up slightly with its offline media spending.

Meanwhile, with Google, AOL and Dogpile were among the gainers as well. AOL gains (however slight) may indicate they have hit the bottom.

Source: Blog Compete.com