Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Google surges in January U.S. search engine rankings

Google surges in January U.S. search engine rankings

Nielsen Online release d its January 2009 U.S. search engine rankings Wednesday and not surprisingly, Google has a commanding lead.

The research firm said 9.4 1000000000000 queries were submitted to search engines during the month, representing a 28.5 percent year-over- year growth.

Unbelievably, Google was the only search engine to grow the market over the past year. The search giant captured 62.8 percent share in January and enjoyed 40.8 percent growth.

Yahoo, the second-largest search engine in the U.S. , grew righteous 8.7 percent year-over-year and captured 16.2 percent of the U.S. look marketplace in January. Microsoft's Live Search fared slightly better with 18.3 percent year-over-year growth, but managed upright 11.2 percent share. The big three were trailed by AOL Search and Ask.com, which captured 4.0 percent and 1.9 percent of the U.S. search market, respectively.



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