March SE Market Share.

Not all search engine rankings are equal people!

I was reading a piece from MediaPost this morning about Microsoft discussing their "search strategy." (Wait? You can use MSN to find stuff online?)

Anyway... Included in the piece was the latest search engine market share (from March 2007) from Hitwise.



This is why I continue to focus on optimizing for Google when it comes to SEO. Each of the top three engines have their own "quality guidelines." But I really don't care a crap about MSN's. And I kinda don't care about Yahoo!'s either. (Yahoo!'s guidelines are vague and LOADED with double standards.)

My belief, when it comes to SEO, is that if you optimize with a core focus on Google, you're going to be fine. Visibility in the other engines will fall into place. (And if they don't... Well, this market share snapshot leads me to ask "Who gives a crap about the other engines right now?")

I mean, think about it... What's more valuable? A position one ranking in MSN on the term "search marketing" or a position one ranking in Google on the same term?