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September Search Stats

Jeremy Crane waxes poetic about being too old to go "back to school" in this post -- noting that kids in school today have the Web and search engines to make their studies that much easier. He takes a look at the search stats from the big four in September, finding that overall search volume hit the highest level here in the States, with nearly 7.8 billion queries. At about a 4.4% increase from last month, it's a great example of a seasonal surge.

It's no surprise that Google is at the top -- but what's interesting is just how much further ahead the company continues to move in both volume and search share. Meanwhile, Yahoo's volume essentially remained flat; MSN grew in volume by almost 30% year-over-year' and Ask jumped up more than 20% from last month.

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