Google Grabs 65% of May Searches: Hitwise

  • June 20, 2007

Google accounted for 65.13% of all U.S. searches for the four weeks ending May 26. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.89, 8.40 and 3.92 percent, respectively. The remaining 49 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.66 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers

Domain

May-07

April-07

May-06

www.google.com

65.13%

65.26%

59.27%

search.yahoo.com

20.89%

20.73%

21.95%

search.msn.com

8.40%*

8.46%*

12.10%

www.ask.com

3.92%

3.69%

4.40%

Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 5/26/07; 4/28/07; 5/27/2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.

* - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search

Source: Hitwise

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