According to Hitwise, Google accounted for 72% of all Internet searches in the U.S. in Feburary.
Yahoo came in a distant 2nd, at 17%, Microsoft at 6% and Ask.com to 4%.
Hitwise, which sampled 10 million U.S. Internet users, showns Google usage grew from a last year when its accounted for 66% of all U.S. searches.
Hitwise figures show search engines continue to be the main way Internet users navigate to industry categories. Comparing February numbers with a year earlier, business and finance, sports, online video and social-networking categories showed double-digit increases in the share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
In addition, the Hitwise survey shows the length of search queries has increased in the past year to more than eight words from an average of five.
Time to sell out the YHOO and buy GOOG stocks!
http://HitWiser.com has a long way to catch up! 🙂
best,
Ritz
Google’s US Search Share Hit’s 72%
I wonder why?
Hummmm….let me guess…google adense..
We stopped using yahoo campaigns ages ago. It was easy to see the writing on the wall. I would be bullish on GOOG!
http://news.cnet.com/Googles-market-lead-widens/2100-1030_3-6054990.html
Who to believe?
“Google’s domestic market share rose to 42.3 percent in February, up from 36.3 percent a year earlier, ComScore said.
Yahoo’s search market share in the United States fell to 27.6 percent from 31.1 percent a year ago, while Microsoft’s MSN fell to 13.5 percent from 16.3 percent and Time Warner’s America Online fell to 8 percent from 8.9 percent”
Today I check out Statcounter’s new “global stats” and they’ve got G just shy of 90%!