Google Referalls dropping

[chris ashdown]

I have noticed that the percentage of Google referalls have dropped from about 54% of total with Yahoo and MSN about 30% combined a few months ago to Google now 32% and Yahoo and MSN now about 60%

The actual numbers are still going up on all referalls, so is Google loosing its top spot?

[OldWelshGuy]

Absolutely Google is losing its % share of the market, there can be no doubt about that. Yahoo also has lost a chunk to the new MSN (MSN is no longer delivering Yahoo search results. It is now delivering results from it's own database)

Depending on where you live in the owrld, Google has also switched to defaulting to the local search engine IE google.co.uk for uk ip addreses etc.

[rodmc]

Google has also switched to defaulting to the local search engine IE google.co.uk for uk ip addreses etc.

yep, very annoying

[OldWelshGuy]

Why annoying? IMO search will get smaller as it grows, it has to if it is to deliver relevancy.