Who’s the Biggest Search Engine?

Opinion
Aug 21, 20061 min

If you said “Google” you’d be right … an estimated 2.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 49 percent of all search queries conducted during July. JULY U.S. SEARCH SHARE RANKINGS NEW YORK – August 21, 2006 – Nielsen//NetRatings reports July 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers. Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.

Provider

Searches (000’s)

YOY Growth

Share of searches

Google Search

2,775,833

35%

49.2%

Yahoo! Search

1,345,991

34%

23.8%

MSN Search

542,300

-3%

9.6%

AOL Search

355,138

-7.8%

6.3%

Ask.com Search

149,370

106%

2.6%

MyWay Search

128,738

29%

2.3%

EarthLink Search

32,148

-5%

0.6%

iWon Search

31,185

-21%

0.6%

Netscape Search

28,605

-60%

0.5%

Dogpile.com Search

24,022

-40%

0.4%

Table: Top 10 Search Providers for July 2006, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)