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Google Leads In Searches for Aug 2007

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Once again Google leads the search engine providers with the largest number of search queries.

Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers

Domain Aug 07 Jul 07 Aug 06
www.google.com 63.98% 64.35% 59.99%
search.yahoo.com 22.87% 22.13% 22.73%
search.msn.com 7.98% 8.79% 11.86%
www.ask.com 3.49% 3.21% 3.37%

Data from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
Note that msn search results also includes live search.

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Google Increases U.S. Search Market Share in Apr 2007

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

According to research firm comScore Inc. Google has increased its market share of search queries 1.7% in the month of April. Here are the stats:

  • Google: 49.7%
  • Yahoo 26.8%
  • MSN 10.3%
  • Ask 5.1%
  • Time Warner companies (includes AOL) 5.0%
  • Other 3.1%

U.S. users did 7.3 billion searches in April. Outside the U.S. it is estimated Google has over 60% of the market.

Doug

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Google’s Search Query Market Share - March 2007

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Google’s market share of queries has increased to 64.1 percent of all queries of U.S. searches in March 2007 according to a survey by Hitwise. This compares to 58.3 percent a year ago.

Another, more conservative survey by comScore Networks places Google at 65.7 percent on a global basis.

The biggest gains occurred in health-related and travel searches.

Doug

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