Search Engine Market Share from 1999

In doing some “Spring Cleaning” this fall on my web server, I ran across an old newsletter I wrote and quoted Danny Sullivan. Here is the search engine market share back then … August of 1999.

Northern Light: 16%
AltaVista: 15.5%
Inktomi (Snap): 15.5%
Inktomi (HotBot): 11.3%
Inktomi (MSN Search): 8.5%
Infoseek: 8.0%
Google: 7.8%
Inktomi (Yahoo): 7.4%
Excite: 5.6%
Lycos: 2.5%
Euroseek: 2.2%

My favorite is Google at 7.8%. What an infant!