[LINK] Google now 70% of US search engine users

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Adam Todd" ;
> 
> The thing I find amusing is that Google is a CHOICE made by the user.
> 
> A user can enter www.google.com into their browser or can choose not to.

Actually, what is probably more interesting is the default page the browsers
ship with and how many users stick with it. Not sure how you would extract
that metric from any study but consider the following:

- A lot of Mozilla's funding comes from Google paying to be the default page
in Firefox and the default search engine in the toolbar.

- I presume IE ships with MSN as it's default page.

- Compare the market shares of the browsers.

- Compare the market shares of the search engines.

At the very least IE users either don't keep MSN as a home page or don't use
it for searching.

cheers
Marty