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Google Tops Yahoo! and MSN
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New York, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 12, 2006 - Search engine Google, according to online competitive intelligence service, Hitwise, has accounted for 59 percent of the volume of searches in the U.S. for May 2006. Hitwise also revealed that Yahoo! and MSN followed, with 22 and 12 percent respectively. The remaining search engines tracked in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for the remaining 7 percent of U.S. searches.
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Volume of Searches Among Top Three Search
Engine Providers (U.S.)
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March-Domain May-06 April-06 06
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www.google.com 59.3% 58.6% 58.3%
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search.yahoo.com 22.0% 22.2% 22.3%
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search.msn.com 12.1% 12.6% 13.1%
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Data based on four week period: May (4/30- 5/27); April (4/2-4/29) and March (3/5-4/1)
Bill Tancer, General Manager of Global Research at Hitwise explained, ''Google continues to lead the three major search engine providers in market share of executed searches, garnering more than half of the total volume of searches in May for the U.S. As the volume of searches stabilizes across the top three search engines, the battle to supplement search with additional services and win the loyalty of Internet users becomes critical.''
Search engine Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine. Google offers information in many different languages on topics including stock quotes, maps, and news headlines, phonebook listings for every city in the United States, images, and Usenet messages, with more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.
The Google Toolbar enables searching from anywhere on the web, while the Google Deskbar (beta) puts a Google search box in the Windows taskbar to search from any application without opening a browser. Google may also be used from a number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones. Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's best known brands. As a business, Google generates revenue by providing advertisers with the opportunity to deliver measurable, cost-effective online advertising that is relevant to the information displayed on any given page. Thousands of advertisers use the Google AdWords program to promote products and services on the web with targeted advertising, while the Google AdSense program offers the delivery of ads relevant to website content.
Hitwise is an online competitive intelligence service that monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160 industry categories. By monitoring more people, more websites, more often, Hitwise provides marketers with timely and actionable marketing insights on how their online presence compares to competitive websites. Companies use this information to maximize the return on their online investment, in efforts such as affiliate programs, search marketing, online advertising, content development and lead generation.
Hitwise collects Internet usage information via a combination of ISP data partnerships and opt-in panels, and complies with local and international privacy legislation as audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 1997, Hitwise is a privately held company, headquartered in New York City and operates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
To learn more about the Hitwise Competitive Intelligence service, please visit: www.ilovedata.com.
To learn more about Google, please visit: www.google.com.
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