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Hitwise’s March 2008 U.S. Search Results
Last week, Hitwise announced the latest figures of March’s U.S. search engine searches based on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Google achieved an all-time high, while the other G.Y.M. members (Yahoo and Microsoft) sunk to all-time lows. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines
|
March 2008 |
February 2008 |
March 2007 |
|
|
|
67.25% |
66.44% |
64.13% |
|
Yahoo |
20.29% |
20.59% |
21.26% |
|
MSN / Live Search |
6.65% |
6.95% |
9.01% |
|
Ask |
4.09% |
4.16% |
3.48% |
Source: Hitwise
The remaining 1.72% of searches is shared among 46 other search engines in Hitwise’s study.
Apart from the search engine giant continuing to rack up U.S. users, particular verticals have been gaining tons of search momentum. Since March 2007, the categories of Travel, Entertainment, Business and Finance, and Sports have all shown double-digit increases in their shares of traffic coming directly from search engines.
Tags: Ask, Google, Hitwise, Microsoft, Yahoo
April 15th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
ask did a little better. But the writings on the wall. Pretty much the reason MSN is going after Yahoo, they know that combined they might have a chance.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Ask is still reaping the benefits of its redesigned result pages and the exciting television ads it had.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
it’s mean google still favourite search engine all the world