Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers:

Domain

October 2007

October 2008

www.google.com

64.49%

71.70%

search.yahoo.com

21.65%

17.74%

search.msn.com

7.42%*

5.40%*

www.ask.com

4.76%

3.53%

The remaining market share for Alt Search Engines 2007 = 1.68%. In 2008 = 1.63%
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