I’m Switching Search Engines

I am voting with my feet. I will continue to use Google as a Search Engine no longer. Thanks to Drudge, I’m now using a new search engine which seems pretty accurate, and its not Yahoo, or InfoSeek-

Its Accoona.

They have a cool toolbar with a popup blocker and a great news search capability. I already use Yahoo News for most of my blogging sources, but for fast results that you can actively narrow with the SuperTarget capability, nothing beats Accoona.

Accoona is reported to have 100 Million Dollars in private investment. This is not the first time in my life I switched web search engines- My last favorite engine before I switched to Google was Magellan.

But people accessing my site now from search engines break down like this, and I’m fairly certain its a typical sample of other sites across the net. As you can see, Google has over 85% of the search engine usage at this time. I expect that this will erode as Accoona slices out its market share and Microsoft catches up with new technology.

1 Google
2,362
86.74%

2 Yahoo
228
8.37

3 MSN
93
3.42

4 Altavista
18
0.66

5 AOL NetFind
18
0.66

6 Lycos
3
0.11

7 mamma.com
1
0.04