|
|
Hitwise, today announced that Google accounted for 63.55 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 29, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.55, 7.83 and 4.32 percent respectively. The remaining 49 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.75 percent of U.S. searches.
|
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers |
|||
| Domain | Sept 07 | Aug 07 | Sept 06 |
| www.google.com |
63.55% |
63.98% |
60.93% |
| search.yahoo.com |
22.55% |
22.87% |
22.29% |
| search.msn.com |
7.83%* |
7.98%* |
10.87%* |
| www.ask.com |
4.32% |
3.49% |
4.28% |
| Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 9/29/07, 9/01/07; 9/30/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
* – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search. |
|||
| Source: Hitwise | |||
Google an Increasing Source of Traffic to Key Industries
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing September 2007 to September 2006, the Travel, Entertainment and Business and Finance categories received double digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
