Google Received 64 Percent of U.S. Searches in October

Google continues to gain share while the competition (except for Ask) continues to trend down.

Big question:  Is there even more share for Google to pick up?


NEW YORK, NY - November 19, 2007 - Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 64.49 percent of all U.S.searches in the four weeks ending October 27, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 21.65, 7.42 and 4.76 percent respectively. The remaining 49 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.68 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
	Oct.-07	Sept.-07	Oct.-06
www.google.com	64.49%	63.55%	60.94%
search.yahoo.com	21.65%	22.55%	22.34%
search.msn.com	7.42%*	7.83%*	10.72%*
www.ask.com	4.76%	4.32%	4.34%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending Oct. 27, 2007, Sept. 29, 2007, Oct. 28, 2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search.
Source: Hitwise