Google search dominance boggles

analysis
Aug 20, 20071 min

Nielsen//NetRatings issued its search engine share rankings for the month of July this afternoon and I thought it would be worthwhile sharing them with readers. It is a bit mind-boggling that in July, Google had more than 4 billion searchers. The total number of searches was over 6 billion, or about one search for every man, woman and child alive on the earth today. Top 10 Search Providers for July 2007, ranked

Nielsen//NetRatings issued its search engine share rankings for the month of July this afternoon and I thought it would be worthwhile sharing them with readers.

It is a bit mind-boggling that in July, Google had more than 4 billion searchers.

The total number of searches was over 6 billion, or about one search for every man, woman and child alive on the earth today.

Top 10 Search Providers for July 2007, ranked by Number of Searches

(U.S.)

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| Provider Searches | Share of Searches

| (000)

| Google Search | 4,143,752 | 53.3% |

| Yahoo! Search | 1,559,745 | 20.1% |

| MSN/Windows | 1,057,064 | 13.6% |

| AOL Search | 407,988 | 5.2% |

| Ask.com Search | 143,513 | 1.8% |

| My Web Search | 69,145 | 0.9% |

| BellSouth Search | 40,374 | 0.5% |

| Comcast Search | 37,311 | 0.5% |

| Dogpile.com | 25,675 0.3% |

| My Way Search | 24,534 | 0.3% |

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Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, August 2007