Saturday, May 20, 2006

Yahoo! is top portal

Portal market share May 2006

Hitwise just published rankings and market share for top portals in search, mail, news, finance, and maps. While Google dominates in search, Yahoo! is the clear aggregate leader across these top categories with an almost 10% lead over the search leader.


SearchE-mailNewsFinanceMapsTotal
Market7.39.33.40.60.521.04
Google47.42.51.90.37.53.80
Yahoo!16.042.46.334.920.55.62
MSN11.522.9
13.44.33.07
Other




8.56

While Google Maps is an often-cited example of the Web 2.0 world Mapquest has 7x the market share according to these numbers.

Top Internet portals by vertical May 2006