NielsenWire reports the top U.S. search providers by number of searches for the month of November 2009. The key thing to notice is the since it’s launch in the spring, Microsoft’s Bing is taking market share from Google.
| Top 10 Search Providers for November 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| RANK | Provider | Searches (000) | Share of Searches |
| Total | 10,002,458 | 100.0% | |
| 1 | Google Search | 6,546,172 | 65.4% |
| 2 | Yahoo! Search | 1,525,964 | 15.3% |
| 3 | MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search | 1,073,416 | 10.7% |
| 4 | AOL Search | 280,311 | 2.8% |
| 5 | Ask.com Search | 177,589 | 1.8% |
| 6 | My Web Search Search | 101,586 | 1.0% |
| 7 | Comcast Search | 47,746 | 0.5% |
| 8 | NexTag Search | 34,314 | 0.3% |
| 9 | BizRate Search | 29,044 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Yellow Pages Search | 25,260 | 0.3% |
| Source: The Nielsen Company | |||
Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider. Example: An estimated 6.5 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 65.4 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.
