NEW YORK, NY -- 10/27/08 --
Nielsen Online reports September 2008 data for
the Top U.S. Search Providers.
Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the
total number of queries conducted at the provider.
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for September 2008, Ranked by
Searches (U.S.)
Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches
-------- ------------- ---------- -----------------
All Search 8,089,226 9.4% 100.0%
Google Search 4,825,556 20.8% 59.7%
Yahoo! Search 1,464,478 1.5% 18.1%
MSN/Windows Live Search 953,504 7.1% 11.8%
AOL Search 335,187 -24.6% 4.1%
Ask.com Search 178,217 12.1% 2.2%
My Web Search 53,825 33.4% 0.7%
Comcast Search 51,935 -13.1% 0.6%
AT&T Worldnet Search 30,086 237.7% 0.4%
NexTag Search 17,775 -29.3% 0.2%
Dogpile.com Search 17,574 -5.3% 0.2%
Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search
Example: An estimated 4.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google
Search, representing 59.7 percent of all search queries conducted during
the given time period.
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