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Google Up 12 Percent Year Over Year


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.

Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers

Domain

September 2007


August 2008

September 2008

www.google.com

63.55%

71.01%

71.16%

search.yahoo.com

22.55%

18.26%

18.06%

search.msn.com


6.28%*

5.32%*

5.36%*

www.ask.com

4.32%

3.45%

3.63%

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.
*Includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.

Source: Hitwise, an Experian company

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