TOP 10 SEARCH ENGINE SHARE RANKINGS FOR JULY 2005
Press Release from NetRatings, Inc.
NIELSEN//NETRATINGS RELEASES TOP 10 SEARCH ENGINE SHARE RANKINGS FOR JULY 2005
Average Web Searcher Conducts 38 Searches in July 2005
NEW YORK– August 24, 2005
Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market
research, released the top 10 search engine share rankings for July
2005.
Google Search continued its lead with 46 percent of all searches, followed
by Yahoo! Search at 23 percent, and MSN Search at 13
percent (see Table 1). AOL Search garnered five percent of searches,
and My Way Search saw two percent.
Table 1:
Top 10 Search Engines Ranked by Search Share: June-July 2005
Provider/Vertical |
June 05 |
July 05 |
| 1. Google Search | 47.0% | 46.2% |
| 2. Yahoo! Search | 22.3% | 22.5% |
| 3. MSN Search | 12.5% | 12.6% |
| 4. AOL Search | 5.5% | 5.4% |
| 5. My Way Search | 1.8% | 2.2% |
| 6. Ask Jeeves Search | 1.8% | 1.6% |
| 7. Netscape Search | 0.9% | 1.6% |
| 8. Dogpile.com Search | 0.8% | 0.9% |
| 9. iWon Search | 1.0% | 0.9% |
| 10. EarthLink Search | 0.8% | 0.8% |
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, August 2005
The average Web searcher conducted nearly 38 searches during July 2005, a four percent increase from the prior month (see Table 2).
Google Search and Yahoo! Search saw heavy usage with 27 and 20
searches per person, respectively, followed by Netscape Search and Dogpile.com
Search, which averaged nearly 20 and 15 searches per person, respectively.
MSN Search rounded out the top five rankings with 14 searches per person.
Table 2:
Top 10 Search Engines Ranked by Searches per Searcher: June-July 2005
Provider/Vertical |
June 05 |
July 05 |
| Total Searches per Searcher | 36.2 | 37.6 |
| 1. Google Search | 27.1 | 27.4 |
| 2. Yahoo! Search | 19.1 | 20.1 |
| 3. Netscape Search | 10.5 | 19.7 |
| 4. Dogpile.com Search | 13.5 | 15.0 |
| 5. MSN Search | 13.4 | 13.9 |
| 6. EarthLink Search | 12.6 | 13.4 |
| 7. My Search Search | 9.5 | 13.2 |
| 8. iWon Search | 17.8 | 13.1 |
| 9. Webcrawler.com Search | 6.8 | 12.2 |
| 10. My Way Search | 10.7 | 11.8 |
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, August 2005
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