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Google, Yahoo, Live Up but ASK Down – January 2009

January 13, 2009 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 72.07 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Dec. 27, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 17.79 percent, 5.56 percent and 3.15 percent, respectively. The remaining 44 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.42 percent of U.S. searches.

Both MSN Search and Yahoo! Search saw increases of 2 percent and 1 percent, respectively, in December 2008 compared with November 2008. MSN Search has increased five months in a row now. For 2008 overall, Google accounted for 69.48 percent of all U.S searches, representing an 8 percent increase over 2007. Ask.com increased 1 percent in 2008 compared with 2007.

Percentage of U.S.searches among leading search engine providers
Domain	December 2007	November 2008	December 2008	2008 overall
www.google.com	65.98%	71.97%	72.07%	69.48%
search.yahoo.com	20.88%	17.70%	17.79%	19.16%
search.msn.com	7.04%*	5.45%*	5.56%*	5.88%
www.ask.com	4.14%	3.35%	3.15%	3.80%
Source: Hitwise, an Experian company

Filed Under: Google, HitWise, MSN, Yahoo

Live and Google Up, Yahoo Down in November

December 12, 2008 By Manoj Jasra 2 Comments

Hitwise, announced today that Google accounted for 71.97 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending Nov. 29, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 17.70 percent, 5.45 percent and 3.35 percent, respectively. The remaining 43 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.53 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S.searches among leading search engine providers
Domain	November 2007	October 2008	November 2008
www.google.com	63.15%	71.70%	71.97%
search.yahoo.com	21.62%	17.74%	17.70%
search.msn.com	9.80%*	5.40%*	5.45%*
www.ask.com	3.72%	3.53%	3.35%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Nov. 29, 2008; Nov. 1, 2008; and Nov. 24, 2007) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.
Source: Hitwise, an Experian company

Filed Under: Google, HitWise, MSN

Google Approaches 71% Share – MSN, Yahoo Down

August 12, 2008 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Google accounted for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending July 26, 2008, Hitwise announced today. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 18.65, 5.36 and 3.53 percent respectively. The remaining 47 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.69 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S.Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain	Jul-08	Jun-08	Jul-07
www.google.com	70.77%	69.17%	64.35%
search.yahoo.com	18.65%	19.62%	22.13%
search.msn.com	5.36%*	5.46%*	8.79%*
www.ask.com	3.53%	4.05%	3.21%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 7/26/2008, 6/28/2008, 7/28,/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

Filed Under: Google, MSN, Yahoo

Google Up, MSN and Yahoo Down in May

June 11, 2008 By Manoj Jasra 2 Comments

Google accounted for 68.29 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending May 31, 2008, Hitwise announced yesterday. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 19.95, 5.89 and 4.23 percent respectively. The remaining 41 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.63 percent of U.S. searches.

In the U.K. market, Google search properties (Google.co.uk and Google.com) accounted for 87 percent of all UK searches in May 2008 representing a 12 percent increase compared to May 2007. Yahoo! search properties accounted for 4.09 percent of UK searches in May 2008, a 2 percent increase compared to April 2008. MSN search properties accounted for 3.72 percent and Ask search properties accounted for 3.07 percent of searches. MSN increased two percent compared to April 2008 and Ask increased 6 percent.

Filed Under: Google, MSN, Yahoo

Google Steady, MSN Down in January

February 6, 2008 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise, today announced that Google accounted for 65.98 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending January 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.94, 6.90 and 4.21 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.97 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S.Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain	Jan.-08	Dec.-07	Jan.-07
www.google.com	65.98%	65.98%	63.06%
search.yahoo.com	20.94%	20.88%	21.40%
search.msn.com	6.90%*	7.04%*	10.35%*
www.ask.com	4.21%	4.14%	3.54%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending Jan. 26, 2008, Dec. 29, 2007 and Jan. 27, 2007) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search.
Source: Hitwise

Filed Under: Google, HitWise, MSN

Google Up to 66%, Yahoo, MSN, ASK Down

January 8, 2008 By Manoj Jasra Leave a Comment

Hitwise, today announced that Google accounted for 65.98 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending December 29, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.88, 7.04 and 4.14 percent respectively. The remaining 49 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.71 percent of U.S. searches.

Also notice how all 3 of Yahoo, MSN, ASK declined in search share percentage over December.

Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain	Dec.-07	Nov.-07	Dec.-06
www.google.com	65.98%	65.10%	63.15%
search.yahoo.com	20.88%	21.21%	21.62%
search.msn.com	7.04%*	7.09%*	9.80%*
www.ask.com	4.14%	4.63%	3.72%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending Dec. 29, 2007, Dec. 1, 2007 and Dec. 30, 2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.* – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search.
Source: Hitwise

Filed Under: ASK, Google, HitWise, MSN, Yahoo

Google, Yahoo, MSN Steady in November

December 24, 2007 By Manoj Jasra 1 Comment

In November, Google Sites share of core searches stood at 58.6 percent, virtually the same level as in October. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 22.4 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.8 percent), Ask Network (4.6 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.5 percent), which had the largest share point gain during the month (up 0.3 points).

In the November 2007 analysis of the Top 50 properties worldwide where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the pack with 7.3 billion searches. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.4 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (984 million), and Time Warner Network (838 million). As a result of search activity likely related to holiday shopping, eBay and Amazon Sites both experienced an increase for the month with 489 million and 178 million queries, respectively.

comScore Core Search Report* November 2007 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch 2.0



Core Search Entity	Share of Searches (%)
Core Search Entity	Oct-07	Nov-07	Point Change Novt-07 vs. Oct-07
Total Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	0.0
Google Sites	58.4%	58.6%	0.2
Yahoo! Sites	22.8%	22.4%	-0.4
Microsoft Sites	9.8%	9.8%	0.0
Ask Network	4.7%	4.6%	-0.1
Time Warner Network	4.2%	4.5%	0.3

comScore Expanded Search Query Report November 2007 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch 2.0



Expanded Search Entity	Search Queries (MM)
Expanded Search Entity	Oct-07	Nov-07	Percent Change Novt-07 vs. Oct-07
Total Expanded Search	14,471	13,907	-3.9%
Google Sites	7,468	7,326	-1.9%
Google	6,184	5,923	-4.2%
YouTube/All Other	1,284	1,403	9.3%
Yahoo! Sites	2,577	2,395	-7.0%
Yahoo!	2,538	2,358	-7.1%
All Other	39	37 an>	-5.1%
Microsoft Sites	1,058	984	-7.0%
MSN-Windows Live	1,021	947	-7.2%
Microsoft/All Other	37	37	0.0%
Time Warner Network	905	838	-7.4%
AOL	433	445	2.6%
Mapquest/All Other	472	393	-16.7%
eBay	472	489	3.5%
Ask Network	493	464	-6.0%
Ask.com	2 77	263	-5.1%
MyWebSearch.com/ All Other	216	201	-6.9%
Fox Interactive Media	483	436	-9.8%
MySpace	475	427	-10.0%
All Other	8	9	12.5%
Craigslist.org	214	207	-3.3%
Amazon Sites	146	178	22.0%
Facebook.com	152	119	-21.7%