Nielsen Online Announces November U.S. Search Share Rankings

NEW YORK, NY--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 5, 2009 -- Nielsen Online reports November 2008 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 November 2008, Ranked by Searches
 (U.S.)

Provider                 Searches (000)    YOY Growth    Share of Searches
                         --------------- --------------  -----------------
All Search                     8,075,564            9.6%             100.0%
Google Search                  5,177,158           21.7%              64.1%
Yahoo! Search                  1,299,306           -1.4%              16.1%
MSN/Windows Live Search          733,460          -16.7%               9.1%
AOL Search                       344,465            3.6%               4.3%
Ask.com Search                   184,059           -6.0%               2.3%
My Web Search                     71,113          -18.3%               0.9%
Comcast Search                    40,645            3.5%               0.5%
AT&T Worldnet Search              25,351          -13.3%               0.3%
NexTag Search                     22,308          -19.5%               0.3%
Dogpile.com Search                17,121           -6.5%               0.2%

Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search

Example: An estimated 5.2 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 64.1 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

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