Nielsen Wire » web searches http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire Consumer Insights, News, Research & Reports Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Top U.S. Online Search Providers: May 2009 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-online-search-providers-may-2009/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-online-search-providers-may-2009/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:37:17 +0000 Nielsen Wire http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=12797 Nielsen Online today reported data for the top U.S. search providers, ranked by total searches, the top companies/divisions and web brands in May 2009.  Total searches increased 20 percent over May 2008.

Top 10 Search Providers for May 2009 (U.S.) 

Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches
All Search 9,440,467 20.3% 100.0%
Google Search 5,968,840 28.2% 63.2%
Yahoo! Search 1,625,253 22.3% 17.2%
MSN/Windows Live Search 891,502 -14.6% 9.4%
AOL Search 364,784 13.1% 3.9%
Ask.com Search 205,438 21.9% 2.2%
My Web Search 77,283 44.7% 0.8%
Comcast Search 55,853 33.1% 0.6%
Yellow Pages Search 33,141 n/a* 0.4%
NexTag Search 27,189 29.9% 0.3%
AT&T Worldnet Search 17,719 -32.4% 0.2%
Source: Nielsen MegaView Search

 * A year-over-year comparison is not possible because of a definitional change to Yellow Pages Search.

Google topped the list of top 10 web brands, with a unique audience of 131.2 million.  Yahoo! took second place, with a unique audience of 118.9 million, followed by MSN/Windows Live at 101.5 million. 

 

Average U.S. Internet Usage, Combined Home & Work, May 2009  
Sessions/Visits per Person 59
Domains Visited per Person 104
Web Pages per Person 2,352
Duration of a Web Page Viewed 0:00:56
PC Time per Person 67:39:05
Active Digital Media Universe 168,670,941
Current Digital Media Universe Estimate 230,530,606
Source: Nielsen NetView

Read the full press release here.

]]> http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-online-search-providers-may-2009/feed/ 1 Top U.S. Online Search Providers: January 2009 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-online-search-providers-january-2009/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/top-us-online-search-providers-january-2009/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:55 +0000 Nielsen Wire http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=8156 According to Nielsen Online, there were approximately 9.5 billion Web searches conducted during January 2009, up an impressive 27.5 percent from January 2008.

Google searches accounted for 62.8 percent of all Web searches with more than 5.9 billion queries.  Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.com continued to round out the top five.

Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.

Rank Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches
  All Searches 9,461,583 27.5% 100.0%
1 Google Seach 5,945,064 40.8% 62.8%
2 Yahoo! Search 1,528,779 8.7% 16.2%
3 MSN/Windows Live Search 1,057,677 18.3% 11.2%
4 AOL Search 381,769 8.9% 4.0%
5 Ask.com Search 181,205 1.0% 1.9%
6 My Web Search 66,649 -6.9% 0.7%
7 Comcast Search 50,311 25.8% 0.5%
8 Yellow Pages Search 25,392 NA* 0.3%
9 AT&T Worldnet Search 24,061 -2.0% 0.3%
10 NextTag Search 23,145 30.0% 0.2%
Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search

* A year-over-year comparison is not possible because of a definitional change to Yellow Pages Search

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Google searches accounted for nearly 63% of all Web searches, with 5.4 billion queries. Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com rounded out the top five.

Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.

RANK Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches
All Searches 8,623,705 19.60% 100.00%
1 Google Search 5,421,943 33.50% 62.90%
2 Yahoo! Search 1,448,140 13.70% 16.80%
3 MSN/Windows Live Search 841,457 -15.50% 9.80%
4 AOL Search 357,025 5.10% 4.10%
5 Ask.com Search 169,116 6.00% 2.00%
6 My Web Search 62,415 -11.60% 0.70%
7 Comcast Search 50,385 45.10% 0.60%
8 NexTag Search 29,219 0.70% 0.30%
9 AT&T Worldnet Search 27,176 8.00% 0.30%
10 BizRate Search 23,593 37.10% 0.30%
Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search

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