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Hitwise, announced last week that Google accounted for 64.35 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending July 28, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.131, 8.79 and 3.21 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.52 percent of U.S. searches.
| Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers | |||
| Domain | Jul-07 | Jun-07 | Jul-06 |
| www.google.com | 64.35% | 63.92% | 60.23% |
| search.yahoo.com | 22.13% | 21.31% | 22.54% |
| search.msn.com | 8.79%* | 9.85%* | 11.77% |
| www.ask.com | 3.21% | 3.42% | 3.29% |
| Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 6/30/07; 7/28/07; 7/29/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
* – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search. Please note that the search volume share reported for www.live.com in the Search Engine Analysis Report for the four week rolling period starting the week ending June 9, 2007 includes searches automatically generated from a promotion on club.live.com. Search volume data from July 9, 2007 onwards does not include automatically generated searches from this promotion. |
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| Source: Hitwise | |||
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