NEW YORK– May 21, 2008 – Nielsen Online reports May 2008 data for the Top US Search Providers.
Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for May 2008, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Provider |
Searches
(000) |
YOY
Growth |
Share of
Searches |
1. Google Search |
4,791,057 |
25.5% |
58.7% |
2. Yahoo! Search |
1,480,690 |
-4.5% |
18.1% |
3. Microsoft Bing Search |
979,761 |
36.6% |
12.0% |
4. AOL Search (Google Feed) |
334,376 |
-19.4% |
4.1% |
5. Ask.com Search |
199,305 |
52.4% |
2.4% |
6. My Web Search |
70,194 |
-5.4% |
0.9% |
7. Comcast Search |
44,227 |
32.4% |
0.5% |
8. NexTag Search |
29,400 |
58.4% |
0.4% |
9. AT&T Worldnet Search |
25,302 |
130.5% |
0.3% |
10. Dogpile.com Search |
19,321 |
-32.9% |
0.2% |
Source: Netrating |
Most popular search engines worldwide, Dec. 2008
Most popular search engines worldwide, Dec. 2008 |
Company |
Searches (m) |
Market Share |
Google |
28,454 |
64.10% |
Yahoo! |
10,505 |
14.60% |
Baidu |
8,428 |
12.90% |
Microsoft |
7,880 |
3.60% |
NHN |
2,882 |
2.10% |
Ask.com |
728 |
1.60% |
AOL |
1,062 |
1.00% |
Misc |
1,282 |
0.10% |
Total |
61,221 |
100.00% |
source: comScore, prerelease 2008
Example: An estimated 4.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 59
percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period. |