Facebook Sees Big Growth In Search
UncategorizedIn August 2009, Americans conducted more than 13.9 billion searches, with Google accounting for 64.6 percent of the search market, according to a new report from comScore.
Microsoft sites captured 9.3 percent of search share, a 0.4 percentage point gain compared to July.
Yahoo sites accounted for 19.3 percent of the search market, remaining unchanged month-over-month. Ask grabbed 3.9 percent of the search market and also remained unchanged over the previous month, followed by AOL with 3 percent.
The number of searches Americans conducted in August was up 3 percent from July. Google sites accounted for 9 billion searches, followed by Yahoo sites (2.7 billion), Microsoft sites (1.3 billion), Ask (541 million) and AOL (415 million).
In the August analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google sites led the search market with 13 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo sites with 2.8 billion queries.
Microsoft sites ranked third with more than 1.3 billion searches, up 6 percent from July, followed by craigslist with 682 million searches. Facebook experienced the largest growth of the top ten expanded search properties with a 20 percent increase in query volume to 324 million searches.
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