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Hitwise, announced today that Google accounted for 71.16 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending Sept. 27, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 18.06 percent, 5.36 percent and 3.63 percent, respectively. The remaining 45 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.80 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers |
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Domain |
September 2007 |
August 2008 |
September 2008 |
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www.google.com |
63.55% |
71.01% |
71.16% |
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search.yahoo.com |
22.55% |
18.26% |
18.06% |
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search.msn.com |
6.28%* |
5.32%* |
5.36%* |
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www.ask.com |
4.32% |
3.45% |
3.63% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Sept. 27, 2008, Aug. 28, 2008, and Sept. 29, 2007, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. |
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Source: Hitwise, an Experian company |
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