NEW YORK, NY, Jun 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nielsen Online reports May 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 May 2008, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches
----------------------- ------------- ---------- -----------------
All Search 7,849,553 9.5% 100.0%
1. Google Search 4,654,624 15.4% 59.3%
2. Yahoo! Search 1,328,667 -13.8% 16.9%
3. MSN/Windows Live Search 1,043,848 72.4% 13.3%
4. AOL Search 322,454 -15.6% 4.1%
5. Ask.com Search 168,568 18.4% 2.1%
6. My Web Search 53,399 -13.6% 0.7%
7. Comcast Search 41,968 20.2% 0.5%
8. AT&T Worldnet Search 26,216 181.6% 0.3%
9. NexTag Search 20,937 44.4% 0.3%
10. Dogpile.com Search 14,825 -43.6% 0.2%
Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search
Example: An estimated 4.7 billion search queries were conducted at
Google Search, representing 59 percent of all search queries conducted
during the given time period.
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