Search Engines and Browsers WAR

Many of us would not be amazed to know that the most widely used search engine is Google. But can u tell the market share of google? It is around 90%. Now that is monopoly. What about the traditional monopolist in the software industry Microsoft? Microsoft's Live is well below 1%. Yahoo comes second with market share of around 8%. Here is the graph for the search engines.




The war in the web browser's zone is interesting. Here, Microsoft has maintained the top slot, but its market share is declining continuously. Mozilla's Firefox popularity seems to be increasing. Very recently, Microsoft has launched Internet Explorer 8, but it has very few takers. I am sure that Microsoft will be able to maintain its lead in browser domain mainly because of its dominance in OS battlefield. IE comes pre-installed with Windows, even when the version is pirated. Try uninstalling IE from Vista and if you succeed, let me know.