The future of search looks bright

At a recent Search Engine Strategies conference in London it was revealed that 70-80% of net users in Europe use search engines.

With a predicted 88 million users in 2005. In the UK, Google is by far the most used search engine, with 69% of the market, followed by MSN and AskJeeves, both on 8.4%, with Yahoo tailing behind with 8%, but different search engines attract slightly different audiences.

All agreed that search had to get smarter as more information comes online, and it was estimated that only 0.003% of the information available in the world is online at present.

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