November 25, 2008
According to Nielsen Online, there were an estimated 7.75 billion web queries conducted for the month of October, 2008. Google search accounted for more than 60% of all searches with an estimated 4.8 billion queries. Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com rounded out the top five.
| RANK | Provider | Searches (000) | % of Searches |
|---|---|---|---|
| # | All Searches | 7,775,913 | 100.00% |
| 1 | Google Search | 4,755,493 | 61.2% |
| 2 | Yahoo! Search | 1,311,504 | 16.9% |
| 3 | MSN/Windows Live Search | 885,567 | 11.4% |
| 4 | AOL Search | 334,467 | 4.3% |
| 5 | Ask.com Search | 177,131 | 2.3% |
| 6 | My Web Search | 60,336 | 0.8% |
| 7 | Comcast Search | 40,246 | 0.5% |
| 8 | AT&T Worldnet Search | 25,474 | 0.3% |
| 9 | NexTag Search | 16,599 | 0.2% |
| 10 | Dogpile.com Search | 14,485 | 0.2% |
| Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search -October 2008 | |||
View September 2008 search results.
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