Google Get 71 Percent of Searches in November 2009
New York, N.Y., Dec. 9, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 71.57 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Nov. 28, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 15.39 percent, 9.34 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.07 percent of U.S. searches.
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Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider |
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Domain |
October 2009 |
November 2009 |
Month-over-month percentage change |
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www.google.com |
70.60% |
71.57% |
1% |
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search.yahoo.com |
16.14% |
15.39% |
-5% |
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www.bing.com |
9.57% |
9.34% |
-2% |
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www.ask.com |
2.62% |
2.65% |
1% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Nov. 28, 2009, and Oct. 31, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. |
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*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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Source: Experian Hitwise |
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Longer searches are flat this past month
Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, were flat between October and September 2009. Searches of eight or more words increased 1 percent. The same time period showed that shorter search queries – those averaging one to four words long – were flat from month to month. Searches of one word comprised the majority of searches, amounting to 24.13 percent of all queries.
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Percentage of U.S. clicks by number of keywords |
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Subject |
October 2009 |
November 2009 |
Month-over-month percentage change |
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One word |
24.03% |
24.13% |
0% |
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Two words |
23.13% |
23.14% |
0% |
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Three words |
20.53% |
20.37% |
-1% |
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Four words |
13.83% |
13.84% |
0% |
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Five words |
8.13% |
8.13% |
0% |
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Six words |
4.42% |
4.43% |
0% |
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Seven words |
2.43% |
2.43% |
0% |
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Eight or more words |
3.49% |
3.54% |
1% |
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Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Nov. 28, 2009, and Oct. 31, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. |
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Source: Experian Hitwise |
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Google is greatest source of traffic to key U.S. industries; Bing sees growth to verticals
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing November 2009 with November 2008, Automotive, Business and Finance, Entertainment, News and Media, and Sports categories showed double-digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
Google was sending the most visits to the four categories below among the top three search engines. Google’s percentage of upstream traffic grew for the Automotive, Shopping and Travel categories. Bing saw double-digit growth among all four categories as seen in the table below.
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Percentage of U.S. upstream traffic from search engines among verticals |
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Yahoo! Search |
Bing |
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Domain |
Nov-08 |
Nov-09 |
YoY % Change |
Nov-08 |
Nov-09 |
YoY % Change |
Nov-08 |
Nov-09 |
YoY % Change |
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Automotive |
18.38% |
21.10% |
15% |
4.26% |
3.96% |
-7% |
1.26% |
2.34% |
86% |
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Health |
32.69% |
31.62% |
-3% |
6.31% |
5.05% |
-20% |
1.78% |
3.40% |
91% |
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Shopping |
18.12% |
19.29% |
6% |
4.22% |
3.91% |
-7% |
1.30% |
2.26% |
74% |
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Travel |
26.77% |
28.87% |
8% |
4.95% |
4.26% |
-14% |
1.86% |
2.86% |
54% |
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Note: Data is based on monthly upstream traffic from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users and does not include news searches. |
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*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com. |
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Source: Experian Hitwise |
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