August 2007 U.S. Search Share Rankings
Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for August 2007, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) Searches YOY Share of Provider (000) Growth Searches 1. Google Search 4,199,495 39.8% 53.6% 2. Yahoo! Search 1,561,903 8.9% 19.9% 3. MSN/Windows Live Search 1,011,398 69.8% 12.9% 4. AOL Search 435,088 32.4% 5.6% 5. Ask.com Search 136,853 0.0% 1.7% 6. My Web Search 71,724 N/A 0.9% 7. BellSouth Search 37,762 N/A 0.5% 8. Comcast Search 34,699 N/A 0.4% 9. My Way Search 32,483 -76.1% 0.4% 10. SBC Yellow Pages Search 31,912 39.2% 0.4% Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search
Example: An estimated 4.2 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 54 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.
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