SEO consultant Charles Knight reminds us that there are many other search engines that Google, Yahoo, MSN search.
Knight classifies these alternative search options into several categories - recommendation engines (social searching), metasearch (multiple searches through one interface), AI and human search (ask a question, get a ‘real’ answer), clustering searches (which give you new ways of navigating results), and of course those that search a niche subset of web content.
The list is worth a peruse - whilst Google may, at least in Australia, massively dominate the general web search space (Google and its geographic variants represents well over 90% of search traffic to Powerhouse Museum) - this almost certainly will not always be the case in the future.
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Yes there are several other search engines but when i saw stats in Google Analytics I just see that visitors comes mainly from google.com not even from yahoo or msn.