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Google Grows Stronger by 7%

September 19, 2007 Comments (6)

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

Manoj Jasra is currently a Sr. Analyst at Shaw Communications Inc. Prior to Shaw, Manoj was the Director of Technology and Sr. Strategist at Enquiro Search Solutions. He has been in the Search Marketing Industry since 2002, since then, his learning in marketing and business strategies as they relate to online has led him to become an expert in Search Marketing/Web Analytics, providing consultation and implementation strategies for clients. Manoj frequently writes in his blog about the latest in the Web Analytics and SEM Industry.

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!

Posted by: Kenneth Dreyer on September 19, 2007

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

Posted by: Glenn Gabe on September 20, 2007

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.

Posted by: Robert on September 21, 2007

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

Posted by: John Pointon on September 21, 2007

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.

Posted by: Hosting admin on September 24, 2007

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

Posted by: Manoj on September 24, 2007

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Since then, his learning in marketing and business strategies as they relate to online has led him to become a resident expert on Search Marketing/Web Analytics.

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