In 2009, we conducted a community poll to learn which search engines our visitors preferred most. The results reflected the rapidly shifting landscape of online search, with one clear industry leader and several legacy platforms still maintaining smaller, loyal user bases.
Poll Question: What is your favorite Search Engine in 2009?
Total Participation: 872 Votes
Results Breakdown:
- Google
728 Votes
83.49% - Yahoo
97 Votes
11.12% - MSN
14 Votes
1.61% - Ask Jeeves
5 Votes
0.57% - All The Web
4 Votes
0.46% - Teoma
4 Votes
0.46% - AOL
3 Votes
0.34% - HotBot
1 Vote
0.11%
Summary
The poll results made it clear that Google dominated user preference in 2009, capturing more than four out of every five votes. Yahoo maintained a distant second place, while MSN and other legacy or niche search engines accounted for only a small fraction of the total. Platforms such as Ask Jeeves, Teoma, and HotBot reflected an earlier era of search but still retained minimal recognition among participants.
These insights helped illustrate how quickly user behavior was consolidating around faster, more accurate search technology, setting the stage for the modern search environment we recognize today.