Google got 75 percent more searches

Posted on Friday, February 10 2006 @ 1:52 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

SearchEngineWatch published a story about a fairly new report from Nielsen//NetRatings on the search engine market.

The report found that the U.S. search market has grown 55 percent from December 2004 to December 2005.

Google gained 5.7% marketshare, whereas Yahoo lost 0.3 percent and MSN even dropped 3.1 percent.

Google now has 43.1 percent of the market, Yahoo follows at 21.7 percent and MSN is third with 14.0 percent.

There are also statistics on the search engine's growth in searches. Google got 75% more search queries in December last year, Yahoo 53 percent more and MSN only 20 percent more.

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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