Manoj Jasra

Manoj Jasra

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Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.87, 7.98 and 3.41 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.68 percent of U.S. 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



Comments (6)

Wow, I didn't know that MSN where playing with only 8%. I though it was way higher than that, considering how big Microsoft is!

These numbers are definitely more inline with what I've been seeing across sites and clients. It's a Google world...

I've never heard anyone ever use the term: "ask it" or even "msn it" but "Google it" is as recognised these days as "would you like fries with that?"

Google has pretty much won the market in much the same way as Microsoft has with software. It's gonna take a massive change to get another search engine close.

Reflects my experience perfectly. Although I believe your personal results depend on the niche you inhabit.

I wrote and article, it's expected that Google will loose its position in a couple of years, but I don't think so... and according to your statistics the situation is almost opporsite.

The numbers for my sem/web analytics blog favour Google even more, towards 80%...

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About the Author

Manoj Jasra has been in the Internet Marketing industry since 2002, he currently leads Internet Marketing Strategies at Shaw Communications Inc. Prior to Shaw, Manoj was the Director of Technology and Sr. Strategist at Enquiro Search Solutions. Manoj provides business consulting through his company Jasra Inc and authors one of the leading Online Marketing/Analytics blogs: Web Analytics World.

Manoj Jasra has been in the Internet Marketing industry since 2002, he currently leads Internet Marketing Strategies at Shaw Communications Inc. Prior to Shaw, Manoj was the Director of Technology and Sr. Strategist at Enquiro Search Solutions. Manoj provides business consulting through his company Jasra Inc and authors one of the leading Online Marketing/Analytics blogs: Web Analytics World.