Based on data taken from 4 week rolling periods (ending 9/01/07; 8/26/07; 7/1/2006) Hitwise announces that Google still rules search with 63.98 percent of all US searches.
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Percentage of US |
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| Domain |
Aug-07 |
Jul-07 |
Aug-06 |
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www.google.com |
63.98% |
64.35% |
59.99% |
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search.yahoo.com |
22.87% |
22.13% |
22.73% |
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search.msn.com |
7.98%* |
8.79%* |
11.86% |
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3.49% |
3.21% |
3.37% |
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Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 9/01/07; 8/26/07; 7/1/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search. |
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| Source: Hitwise | |||
Back in May we reported that almost 65% of search in US alone was performed on Google. The number may have dropped by almost one percent, but it is a major increase from last year's. Also, the next competition is a far distance away.
Yahoo! is second with 22.87%, third is Microsoft with 7.98% and in fourth place is Ask.com with 3.49%.
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