Nielsen Online Announces June U.S. Search Share Rankings

Nielsen Online reports June 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 June 2008, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)

                                       Searches      YOY       Share of
Provider                                 (000)      Growth     Searches
                                       ---------   --------    --------
All Search                             7,878,483        6.3%      100.0%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
1.  Google Search                      4,650,982       19.0%       59.0%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
2.  Yahoo! Search                      1,310,273      -12.4%       16.6%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
3.  MSN/Windows Live Search            1,108,976       12.5%       14.1%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
4.  AOL Search                           335,436      -17.0%        4.3%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
5.  Ask.com Search                       159,778        4.9%        2.0%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
6.  Comcast Search                        37,577       23.3%        0.5%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
7.  My Web Search                         35,630      -53.6%        0.5%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
8.  MapQuest Search                       23,997       57.9%        0.3%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
9.  NexTag Search                         21,744       10.4%        0.3%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
10. AT&T Worldnet Search                  21,222      106.5%        0.3%
                                       ---------   --------    --------
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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