NIELSEN ONLINE ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER U.S. SEARCH SHARE RANKINGS
NEW YORK – October 27, 2008 – Nielsen Online reports September 2008 data for the Top U.S.
Search Providers..
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for September 2008
Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
| Provider |
Searches (000) |
YOY Growth |
Share of Searches |
| All Search |
8,089,229 |
9.4% |
100.0% |
| 1. Google Search |
4,825,556 |
20.8.3% |
59.7% |
| 2. Yahoo! Search |
1,464,478 |
1.5% |
18.1% |
| 3. MSN/Windows Live Search |
953,504 |
7.1% |
11.8% |
| 4. AOL Search |
335,187 |
-24.6% |
4.1% |
| 5. Ask.com Search |
178,217 |
12.1% |
2.2% |
| 6. My Web Search |
53,825 |
33.4% |
0.7% |
| 7. Comcast Search |
51,935 |
33.4% |
0.6% |
| 8. AT&T Worldnet Search |
30,086 |
237.7% |
0.4% |
| 9. NexTag Search |
17,775 |
-29.3% |
0.2% |
| 10. Dogpile.com Search |
17,574 |
-5.3% |
0.2% |
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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