2001 ratings

A 2001 issue of USAToday showed a rating of "Search Engines" by the
September issue of PCWorld Magazine with the following results.

ENGINE             ADDRESS                RATING (out of 5)

Google             www.google.com         5
Fast               www.alltheweb.com      4.5
Yahoo              www.yahoo.com          4
Lycos              www.lycos.com          4
Northern Light     www.northernlight.com  3.5
HotBot             www.hotbot.com         3
Dogpile            www.dogpile.com        3
Altavista          www.altavista.com      2.5
Excite             www.excite.com         2.5
Ask Jeeves         www.ask.com            2
LookSmart          www.looksmart.com      2
Metacrawler        www.metacrawler.com    2

Now in 2006 the ratings and their recent change:
Financial Times rated search providers this morning by market share and year 
on year growth.

Google        24% growth    50% market
Yahoo         12% growth    23% market
MSN          -12% growth     9% market
AOL           -9% growth     6% market
ASK           19% growth     3% market
MyWay         16% growth     2% market
Earthlink     -2% growth   0.6% market
BellSouth      na growth   0.5% market
IWON         -26% growth   0.5% market
Dogpile      -36% growth   0.4% market