NEW YORK– August 12, 2009 – The Nielsen Company today reported June 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 June 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
|
Provider
|
Searches (000)
|
Share of Searches
|
|
All Search
|
10,004,427
|
100.0%
|
|
Google Search
|
6,611,079
|
66.1%
|
|
Yahoo! Search
|
1,624,774
|
16.2%
|
|
Bing Search
|
879,530
|
8.8%
|
|
AOL Search
|
298,442
|
3.0%
|
|
Ask.com Search
|
179,307
|
1.8%
|
|
My Web Search
|
109,913
|
1.1%
|
|
Comcast Search
|
45,378
|
0.5%
|
|
Yellow Pages Search
|
38,159
|
0.4%
|
|
NexTag Search
|
30,133
|
0.3%
|
|
Local.com Search
|
16,189
|
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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