Where Do Online Users Search?
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The World Wide Web has granted users the opportunity to find basically any and every type of web site that is online. Accurately, there are thousands of search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Bing, which provide the ability to search the Web.
The greater part of online searched are carried out at a small number of search web sites. A great question to ask is, how do the most popular sites rank? The answer depends on how you measure popularity. The term can be measured based the following criteria:
Total amount of searches conducted
Total amount of time visitors spend searching at the site
Total number of site guests
Audience reach (percentage of site visitors)
All of the above measurements tend to provide slightly different rankings. Below is a list of the Internets most popular search sites. The results are based on one month of searches during August of 2007. The study was conducted by Nielson/NetRatings. Roughly 8 billion searches in the U.S. were recorded. The results include:
Google.com 53.6%
Yahoo.com 19.9%
MSN.com 12.9%
AOL.com 5.6%
Ask.com 1.7%
My Web Search 0.9%
BellSouth Search 0.5%
Comcast Search 0.4%
My Way 0.4%
SBC Yellow Pages Search 0.4%
Be advised that this is a list of search sites, not search systems. In some cases, the sites own their own systems. Google supplies its own search results, however AOL does not. My Web Search is a metasearch engine receiving results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com.
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