NetRatings: Average Searches Per Searcher Increases; Google Top Ranked In August 2005

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
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