December 14th, 2005
Top search engines in October 2005: Google - 47.7%, Yahoo! - 21.8%, MSN - 11.3%
Nielsen//NetRatings reported the volume of Internet search queries growing to more than 5.1 bln in October 2005, up 15% from five months ago. Ask Jeeves led as the fastest growing search player out of the top five search engines, skyrocketing 77% in search volume, while Google maintained its leader position with the largest market share of nearly half of all searches, or 48%, by generating 2.4 bln requests.
| Top search engines in October 2005 | ||||
| Total searches, 000 | ||||
| Search engine | June 2005 | October 2005 | Growth | Share |
| 2,032,222 | 2,449,396 | 21% | 47.7% | |
| Yahoo! | 965,642 | 1,118,429 | 16% | 21.8% |
| MSN | 540,686 | 582,702 | 8% | 11.3% |
| AOL | 358,667 | 368,130 | 3% | 7.2% |
| Ask | 75,808 | 133,932 | 77% | 2.6% |
| Total | 4,447,406 | 5,134,713 | 15% | |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | ||||
See Nielsen//NetRatings data from August 2005
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