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American searchers spent a lot of time in January hitting the search engines. ComScore said Americans made 6.9 billion searches for the month, with Google handling 3.3 billion of them. Those searches gave Google 47.5 percent of the market, and that was a little increase over their December share. After Google, the other major search engines fell into line behind them.
Yahoo held on to second place but lost some share, dropping to 28.1 percent, while Microsoft moved up a little to 10.6 percent. Ask.com saw its share drift down to 5.2 percent. Overall, people have been doing a lot more searching. January’s number of searches was up 26 percent over the same month in 2006.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] Apparently someone has been searching for a lot of “Adult Entertainment” (trying to keep it family friendly here, you know?). According to WebProNews, 6.9 billion searches were made by Americans in January, up 26% year over year. Google’s share is still a whopping 47.5%, much higher than Yahoo’s 28.1% market share and MSN’s pitiful 10%. [...]