NEW YORK– August 12, 2009 – The Nielsen Company today reported July 2009 data for the top U.S. Search Providers.
MegaView Search data – including total searches, unique searchers, search share, and all other search figures – cannot be trended with search results prior to June 2009 due to recent methodology changes
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for July 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
|
Provider
|
Searches (000)
|
M-O-M % Growth
|
Share of Searches
|
|
All Search
|
10,508,032
|
5%
|
100%
|
|
Google Search
|
6,809,116
|
3%
|
64.8%
|
|
Yahoo! Search
|
1,801,151
|
11%
|
17.1%
|
|
MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search
|
946,857
|
8%
|
9.0%
|
|
AOL Search
|
327,448
|
10%
|
3.1%
|
|
Ask.com Search
|
181,108
|
1%
|
1.7%
|
|
My Web Search
|
127,747
|
16%
|
1.2%
|
|
Comcast Search
|
64,176
|
41%
|
0.6%
|
|
Yellow Pages Search
|
36,936
|
-3%
|
0.4%
|
|
NexTag Search
|
31,714
|
5%
|
0.3%
|
|
AT&T Worldnet Search
|
17,193
|
11%
|
0.2%
|
Source: Nielsen MegaView Search
Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider. Example: An estimated 6.6 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 66.1 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.
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