Gavin O'Malley's, Media Post article: Search Activity Jumps In August, reports on some new search stats that were released by Nielsen//NetRatings yesterday.
Numbers
- 5.04 billion searches in August across 65 engines, that's up 10% from the 4.6 billion searches in July
- Average searches per web searcher grew to 42 in August, increase of 7% from July
Top Engines for August
- Google--46% of all searches
- Yahoo--23% of all searches
- MSN--11% of all searches
- AOL Search--8% of all searches
- Ask Jeeves--2% of all searches
