WWWgoogle or www.google is a popular web destination for searching topics, images, weather and maps. Google is the world’s most popular search engine.

Knowing which search engine gets the largest percentage of search traffic may play a role in deciding the focus of optimization efforts. It also plays a big factor in which search engines people want to use to search out topics of interest.  Google search statistics, for example, show us that Google is still the king of search traffic, accounting for 63.46% of all search traffic in March 2011.  Second place yahoo isn’t even close.  Google is the leader of the pack.

The most accurate indicator of search engine usage is ‘search hours‘. The following data shows who the top 3 search engines are:

• Google -> 13 million hours
• Yahoo -> 5.4 million hours
• MSN -> 4.9 million hours