Top 10 U.S. Search Engines in October, Nielsen//NetRatings
As
Americans conducted over 6 billion online searches in October, the top 10
search engines accounted for over 96.5% of these searches, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Google continues to dominate the space with nearly half of the search
market by facilitating over 3 billion searches in October, growing at 23%
year over year. Yahoo retaines the No.2 spot with nearly 24% share of teh
searches, and growing at 30% year over year.
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Top 10 U.S. Search Providers by Searches - October 2006 |
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| Rank |
Provider |
Searches |
YoY Growth |
Share of Searches |
| 1 |
Google Search |
3,022,326 |
23% |
49.6% |
| 2 |
Yahoo! Search |
1,456,269 |
30% |
23.9% |
| 3 |
MSN/Live Search |
538,594 |
-8% |
8.8% |
| 4 |
AOL Search |
375,045 |
1.9% |
6.2% |
| 5 |
Ask.com Search |
168,076 |
25% |
2.8% |
| 6 |
My Way Search |
133,211 |
7% |
2.2% |
| 7 |
EarthLink Search |
34,537 |
10% |
1% |
| 8 |
Comcast Search |
33,399 |
N/A |
1% |
| 9 |
BellSouth Search |
29,657 |
N/A |
0.5% |
| 10 |
iWon Search |
29,549 |
1% |
0.5% |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, November 2006 | ||||
