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Microsoft and Yahoo Continue to Chase Google for Marketshare

May 9, 2005 -- NetApplications, an industry leader in Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME), today announced its latest results on active search engine traffic statistics.



The battle continues as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) chase Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) for market share. Google continues to climb, in particular, Google's Ad Sense which contributed 4.19% to its market dominance in April. Ad Sense contributed

3.55% to Google's overall market share in March.



"The search engine wars are definitely heating up as Google continues its aggressive campaign to increase market share and Yahoo and MSN launch new initiatives designed to attract new users and advertisers," noted Dan Shapero, Chief Operating Officer of NetApplications. "Google is the only company to increase its user-base over the last 60 days, at the direct expense of its competition, and investors have taken notice. The company's stock has risen considerably from $190 in February to $220 on May 1."



Below is the latest aggregate information from our network on Search Engine referral visitor percentage.



Top U.S. Search Engine Traffic referrals for April are as follows:



Google

February 43.06%

March 44.51%

April 45.85



Yahoo! Websites

February - 17.02%

March - 16.98%

April - 15.35



MSN

February - 11.52%

March - 10.86%

April - 10.86



AOL

February - 3.27%

March - 3.21%

April - 3.00%



Dogpile

February - 0.85%

March - 0.83%

April - 0.77%



Ask Jeeves

February - 0.91%

March - 0.88%

April - 0.86%



Alta Vista

February - 0.47%

March - 0.46%

April - 0.41%



HitsLink is Net Applications' flagship product providing advanced website statistics and analysis for webmasters and eMarketers alike. The data has been collected from over 40,000 Hitslink.com-monitored global Web sites.



Please feel free to use this data in your reports or articles, simply source it as, "Data for this article was compiled from global traffic statistics from Web sites tracked by NetApplications' HitsLink.com."



The HitsLink Enterprise Service starts at $14.95 per monthly subscription.A free trial is available at www.HitsLink.com/trial.



About NetApplications

Since 1999 NetApplications has been a leading source of tools and utilities for webmasters and eMarketers for small to medium enterprise (SME). The company has a complete suite of simple and affordable subscription-based applications that are designed to help users have greater success with their Web site marketing efforts. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo California, NetApplications distributes its services through over 3,000 partners and affiliates. These services may also be founded at www.netapplications.com, www.hitslink.com, www.submitter.net, www.publishplus.com, www.1stwarning.com and www.toolshack.com.

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