Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 64.35 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending July 28, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.131, 8.79 and 3.21 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.52 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers |
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Domain |
Jul-07 |
Jun-07 |
Jul-06 |
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www.google.com |
64.35% |
63.92% |
60.23% |
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search.yahoo.com |
22.13% |
21.31% |
22.54% |
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search.msn.com |
8.79%* |
9.85%* |
11.77% |
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www.ask.com |
3.21% |
3.42% |
3.29% |
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Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 6/30/07; 7/28/07; 7/29/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search. Please note that the search volume share reported for www.live.com in the Search Engine Analysis Report for the four week rolling period starting the week ending June 9, 2007 includes searches automatically generated from a promotion on club.live.com. Search volume data from July 9, 2007 onwards does not include automatically generated searches from this promotion. |
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Source: Hitwise |
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Google an Increasing Source of Traffic to Key Industries
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing July 2007 to July 2006, the Travel, News and Media, Entertainment and Business and Finance categories received double digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
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Category |
Percent of Category Traffic from Search Engines, July-07 |
Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Search Engines, July-07 – July-06 |
Percent of Category Traffic from Google, July-07 |
Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Google, July-07 – July-06 |
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Health and Medical |
43.83% |
0.55% |
28.73% |
3.03% |
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Travel |
32.26% |
13.53% |
20.88% |
22.29% |
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Shopping and Classifieds |
24.99% |
0.27% |
15.62% |
5.01% |
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News and Media |
20.66% |
8.90% |
13.24% |
14.41% |
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Entertainment |
21.13% |
10.35% |
12.98% |
16.55% |
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Business and Finance |
16.79% |
17.97% |
10.09% |
28.90% |
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All figures are based on US data from the Hitwise sample of 10 million Internet users. Source: Hitwise |
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