# Search engines: most popular?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engines-most-popular/74367>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 31, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engines-most-popular/74367 "2001-07-31T18:56:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jdl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdl)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engines-most-popular/74367/1 "2001-07-31T18:56:33Z")

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I was trying to find out which search engines are most used by users. I figure Yahoo is the most used, but I couldn’t find a chart or anything listing the top ones.

I’m not interested in which give the best results, but which are most popular.

Has anyone come across this info?

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engines-most-popular/74367/2 "2001-07-31T19:30:46Z")

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Here’s a page with some data, and it even has charts: [http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/mediametrix.html](http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/mediametrix.html)

Watch out though - from the page:

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> Keep in mind that the numbers above may include traffic that is not specifically search related. For example, “portal” sites such as Yahoo may include traffic to non-search areas such as their free home page building sections.