Why You should Focus Your SEO Efforts On Google
1/9/2010 12:37
Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 71.43 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Aug. 1, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask received 14.43 percent, 9.86 percent and 2.32 percent, respectively. The remaining 70 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.94 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers | |||
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Domain |
June 2010 |
July 2010 |
Month-over-month percentage change |
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www.google.com |
71.65% |
71.43% |
0% |
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search.yahoo.com |
14.37% |
14.43% |
0% |
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www.bing.com* |
9.85% |
9.86% |
0% |
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www.ask.com |
2.19% |
2.32% |
6% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending June 26, 2010, and July 31, 2010) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Figures are for Web searches only. | |||
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*This includes executed searches on Bing.com but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. | |||
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Source: Experian Hitwise | |||
