Nielsen Online Announces February US Search Share Rankings
NEW YORK– March 10, 2009 – Nielsen Online reports February 2009 data for the Top U.S. 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 February 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Provider |
Searches (000) |
YOY Growth |
Share of Searches |
All Search |
8,494,653 |
10.1% |
100.0% |
Google Search |
5,394,190 |
19.2% |
63.5% |
Yahoo! Search |
1,415,354 |
4.0% |
16.7% |
MSN/Windows Live Search |
881,050 |
2.4% |
10.4% |
AOL Search |
320,098 |
-19.9% |
3.8% |
Ask.com Search |
162,226 |
-16.9% |
1.9% |
My Web Search |
55,772 |
-21.6% |
0.7% |
Comcast Search |
42,895 |
1.3% |
0.5% |
Yellow Pages Search |
37,636 |
N/A* |
0.4% |
AT&T Worldnet Search |
17,371 |
-27.6% |
0.2% |
Dogpile.com Search |
15,880 |
-28.9% |
0.2% |
* A year-over-year comparison is not possible because of a definitional change to Yellow Pages Search.
Example: An estimated 5.4 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 63.5 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.
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