Will Vista effect search engine traffic?

[discdrome]

Windows Vista uses the Microsoft Live search engine by default, so out of the box any search's will be conducted on live.com I have a few sites that do very well on live.com but not so good on google. Currently traffic is not great from live.com but I think I can expect to see this rise as Vista usage increases.

Currently google is dominating all my logs for my domains, it will be interesting to see if Microsoft start to claw back traffic as Vista gets installed.

 

[rusty123]

I doubt it will rise by much, maybe a few percent. People will still use there favourite search engines. According to nielsen netratings for december 2006, google holds 50.8%, yahoo 23.6%, and live/msn 8.4%, Aol 6.1%,

http://www.netratings.com/pr/pr_070123.pdf

 

[demo]

don't forget google paid 1 billion to Dell to make sure they were the default search provider on all Dell PC's.

I prever live search myself!

 

[discdrome]

don't forget google paid 1 billion to Dell to make sure they were the default search provider on all Dell PC's.

I prever live search myself!

Some of my sites prefer live search as well. I am no1 for search "subtitles" which is great no so good on google. Have to see if the traffic increases over the coming months.

 

[labrocca]

I doubt it will rise by much, maybe a few percent. People will still use there favourite search engines. According to

This is the same mentality when IE was bundled with Windows and Netscape users were like..."we are better so people will use us". We all know how well that went. Whenever MS bundles a product into it's OS it takes a strong hold on the market. MANY users just use default settings and it may take them years to figure out how to take control over windows.

I'd be willing to be that it will be more than a few percent who will use LIVE. I place it in the range of 15-25% within 24 months. That's significant.