{"id":21,"date":"2006-02-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2006\/02\/26\/are-you-loyal-search-engine-loyalty-benchmark\/"},"modified":"2006-02-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T12:00:00","slug":"are-you-loyal-search-engine-loyalty-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/are-you-loyal-search-engine-loyalty-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you loyal? &#8212; Search Engine Loyalty Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really.  People like to use more than one engine to find what they&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hepguru.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sosa_dec05-755087.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hepguru.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sosa_dec05-751363.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Google users are most loyal.  Google captured 71% of all searches executed by its users in Dec &#8217;05.   Yahoo captured 48.1% of its user\u2019s searches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I&#8217;m sure the folks at AOL and MSN are a little concerned after having spent lots of $$ revamping their search offerings.  They have much more work to do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" >A9&#8217;s Share of Search Activity (SOSA):<\/span><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hepguru.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sosa_a9_dec05-761275.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hepguru.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sosa_a9_dec05-757730.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Not surprising, Google is A9.com&#8217;s #1 threat.   Interesting that A9 users submit nearly the same numbers on queries on Ask.com as they do on A9.com itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;\">Bottom-line:<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">   Search engines, <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">as they try to nurture a more loyal user base, <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"> have their work cut out for them.   There is still <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">much <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compete.com\/news_events\/pressRelease.xtp?id=95\">Full report<\/a> &#8211; requires free registration]<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really. People like to use more than one engine to find what they&#8217;re looking for. Google users are most loyal. Google captured 71% of all searches executed by its users in Dec &#8217;05. Yahoo captured 48.1% of its user\u2019s searches. I&#8217;m sure the folks at AOL and MSN are a little concerned after having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}