Google Continues Its Gain In The USA!

September 20th, 2007 | 1,559 views RSS Feed

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Based on data taken from 4 week rolling periods (ending 9/01/07; 8/26/07; 7/1/2006) Hitwise announces that Google still rules search with 63.98 percent of all US searches.

Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain	Aug-07	Jul-07	Aug-06
www.google.com	63.98%	64.35%	59.99%
search.yahoo.com	22.87%	22.13%	22.73%
search.msn.com	7.98%*	8.79%*	11.86%
www.ask.com	3.49%	3.21%	3.37%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 9/01/07; 8/26/07; 7/1/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * – includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search.
Source: Hitwise

Back in May we reported that almost 65% of search in US alone was performed on Google. The number may have dropped by almost one percent, but it is a major increase from last year's. Also, the next competition is a far distance away.

Yahoo! is second with 22.87%, third is Microsoft with 7.98% and in fourth place is Ask.com with 3.49%.

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