New York, N.Y. — Oct. 17, 2008 —Hitwise®, an Experian company, announced today that Google accounted for 71.16 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending Sept. 27, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 18.06 percent, 5.36 percent and 3.63 percent, respectively. The remaining 45 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.80 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers | |||
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Domain |
September 2007 |
August 2008 |
September 2008 |
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www.google.com |
63.55% |
71.01% |
71.16% |
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search.yahoo.com |
22.55% |
18.26% |
18.06% |
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search.msn.com |
6.28%* |
5.32%* |
5.36%* |
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www.ask.com |
4.32% |
3.45% |
3.63% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Sept. 27, 2008, Aug. 28, 2008, and Sept. 29, 2007, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. | |||
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Source: Hitwise, an Experian company | |||
Google an increasing source of traffic to key U.S. industries
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing September 2008 with September 2007, Business and Finance, Sports, Online Video and Social Networking categories showed double-digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
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U.S. category upstream traffic from search engines and Google — September 2008 | ||||
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Category |
Percentage of category traffic from search engines, September 2008 |
Percent change in share of traffic from search engines, September 2007– |
Percentage of category traffic from Google, September 2008 |
Percent change in share of traffic from Google, September 2007– |
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Health and Medical |
44.92% |
1% |
31.78% |
11% |
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Travel |
35.41% |
9% |
25.99% |
23% |
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Shopping and Classifieds |
24.93% |
-2% |
17.40% |
10% |
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News and Media |
20.42% |
-2% |
14.60% |
10% |
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Entertainment |
22.71% |
9% |
15.44% |
25% |
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Business and Finance |
18.65% |
10% |
12.96% |
26% |
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Sports |
11.43% |
16% |
7.97% |
31% |
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Online Video** |
31.50% |
28% |
22.97% |
52% |
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Social Networking** |
17.41% |
16% |
11.38% |
38% |
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All figures are based on U.S. data from the Hitwise sample of 10 million Internet users. | ||||
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Source: Hitwise, an Experian company | ||||
About Hitwise
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Since 1997, Hitwise has pioneered a unique, network-based approach to Internet measurement. Through relationships with ISPs around the world, Hitwise’s patented methodology anonymously captures the online usage, search and conversion behavior of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into an easy-to-use, Web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement and report on a range of online marketing programs.
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