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August 2007 U.S. Search Share Rankings

Monday, September 24th, 2007

August 2007 U.S. Search Share Rankings 
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - September 19, 2007) - Nielsen//NetRatings reports August 2007 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 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.

About Nielsen//NetRatings

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Topped 100 million sites!

Friday, January 5th, 2007

In November 2006, web sites on the Internet has hit through 100 million sites on the barrier.

At the end of December 2006 survey, Netcraft received responses from 105,244,649 sites, which mean a total growth of 30.9 million sites in year 2006, again hitting a record gain of 41.5% shattering the year 2005. Comparable to the previous year, 2005 a 17.5 millions sites gain.

Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - December 2006
Blogs and small business web sites have driven  the explosive growth for year 2006.

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