Google handled more than 3/4 of all searches in the USA in March...amazing huh? At least according to www.hitwise.com. Here are the details straight from the Hitwise press release...blogged by Joyce Schwarz @ www.hollywood2020.blogs.com.
Google Accounted For 64 Percent Of All U.S.
Google Search Market Share Up 10 Percent Year-Over-Year
NEW YORK, NY – April 11, 2007 – Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that the Google accounted for 64 percent of all US searches in the for the four weeks ending March 31, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22, 9 and 3 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 5 percent of U.S.
Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers Domain Mar-07 Feb-07 Mar-06 www.google.com 64.13% 63.90% 58.33% search.yahoo.com 21.26% 21.47% 22.30% search.msn.com 9.15%* 9.30%* 13.09% www.ask.com 3.48% 3.52% 3.99% Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 3/31/07; 2/24/07; 4/1/2006) from a sample of 10 million US Internet users. * - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search Source: Hitwise
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